NeurophotonicsNews

Royal Society of Edinburgh
11 April 2024
 
Professor Keith Mathieson, Neurophotonics Group leader, is among the 2024 cohort of new Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Utah Optrode Arrays
15 March 2024
 
Congratulations to Post-Doc Yunzhou and Research Fellow Niall on their latest paper in Nature Communications Biology. The work was in collaboration with the University of Utah on testing the Utah Optrode Arrays in vivo.

New Publication
19 February 2024
 
Congratulations to Post-Doc Emma on her latest paper in the Journal of Neural Engineering discussing 3D electro-neural interfaces electroplated on subretinal prostheses.

Photonics West
27 January 2024
 
PhD student Ryan Greer presented his work on a new optogenetics device for targeting populations of neurons in the auditory cortex at Photonics West 2024. This work is part of the H2020 Hearlight project

Queen's Anniversary Prize
13 December 2023
 
The University of Strathclyde has won a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Photonics Research. Work by the neurophotonics team featured strongly in the justification of the award. 

Optogen 2023 Poster Prize
19 May 2023
 
Congratulations to PhD student Ryan Greer on winning the best poster award at Optogen 2023. His work is part of the Hearlight project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme, grant agreement No 964568.

HearLight
3 March 2023
 
The HearLight project is developing brain implants for hearing restoration. Our mircoLED devices can deliver light to the auditory cortex and feature in a recent video showcasing the project.

Critical Conversation
20 January 2023
 
Prof Keith Mathieson and Prof Timothy Denison will join RAEng CEO, Dr Hayaatun Sillem to discuss how neurotechnology may reshape our lives. Click here to register

Neurotechnology Regulation

30 November 2022
 
A new report from the Regulatory Horizons Council on “Neurotechnology Regulation” - foreword by Keith Mathieson and Timothy Denison.

Latest Paper

10 November 2022

New publication detailing the performance of our highest resolution subretinal implant that functions as an array of “electronic photoreceptors”.

Ruaridh Winstanley

3 Feb 2022

Congratulations to Ruaridh Winstanley who has just passed his PhD viva. 

Neurotechnology UK Roadmap
1 July 2021
 
UK Neurotechnology Roadmap outlined, as part of Innovate UK's KTN, co-authored by Keith Mathieson, Timothy Denison and Charlie Winkworth-Smith.

Hearlight

26 May 2021

The EU H2020 Future Emerging Technologies programme has awarded 3M€ to HearLight, a project including the neurophotonics team at the University of Strathclyde.

Deeper

1 March 2021

Researchers from the Neurophotonic Team are part of an EU H2020 funded study creating new photonic tools for accessing the deep brain.

RAEng

25 April 2019

Professor Keith Mathieson has been awarded a prestigious Chair in Emerging Technologies by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng).