Multidisciplinary colleagues at Strathclyde from physics, chemistry, engineering, biosciences and medicine, work together to develop advanced imaging techniques to facilitate new innovations in the sphere of biomedicine.
This involves the development of innovative optical microscopy techniques, novel labelling probes, image processing & analysis techniques, and their applications to diverse themes within life sciences, including drug delivery, infection and disease, and cancer studies.
We have expertise in:
- new laser sources for nonlinear optical microscopy
- novel fluorescent probes for mRNA imaging
- fluorescent metal quantum dots
- fast FLIM image processing technique
- microsystem and lab-on-a-chip techniques
- 3D biofabrication and 3D printed organs
- raman microscopy
- multi-photon and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy
- super resolution fluorescence microscopy
- image analysis
Our sensor expertise is focused on the application of analytical science to solve biological problems, most notably with applications in healthcare.
We have expertise in:
- plasmonic sensors
- the use of infrared spectroscopy for clinical diagnostics
- the development of peptides as biological mimics
- the application of new chemiluminescence approaches to biological measurements
Our analytical expertise is focused on process analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry, and conservation science.
Atomic and molecular spectrometry, chemometrics, chromatography, materials analysis, radioanalytical techniques, and optical spectroscopies are used extensively in the development of these areas.
In addition, we have the capability to use ultrafast and multidimensional spectroscopy for probing dynamic processes.
Our specific skills lie in accurate analytical measurement of molecules, developing new instrumentation and techniques, development of assays and chemical reagents, for use in rapid and highly sensitive detection approaches.