Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	EP/F50053X/1
Title:	LSI DTCs 2007: Physical sciences of imaging in the biomedical sciences (PSIBS)
Principal Investigator:	Hannon, Professor MJ
Other Investigators:
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:	Advantage West Midlands Birmingham City Council Bruker Carl Zeiss Ltd (UK) Central Technology Belt Diamond Light Source GE Healthcare Hewlett Packard JEOL Lambda Photometrics Ltd LOT Oriel Ltd Luminescence Services Ltd Medilink Nikon Perkin Elmer QinetiQ Renishaw plc (UK) Smith & Nephew plc (UK) Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum University Hospitals Birmingham
Department:	School of Chemistry
Organisation:	University of Birmingham
Scheme:	LSI Doctoral Training Centres
Starts:	01 October 2008	Ends:	31 March 2018	Value (£):	7,181,445
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Analytical Science Bioinformatics Biological & Medicinal Chem. Biomedical neuroscience Chemical Biology Image & Vision Computing Med.Instrument.Device& Equip. Tissue Engineering
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 16 Sep 2007 LSI DTC's Interview Panel Announced
Summary on Grant Application Form
The PSIBS Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) will focus on the development of the physical sciences of imaging and the computational analysis of image data to address key problems in the biological and biomedical sciences.The importance of Imaging to Bioscience and Medicine has been highlighted both by the N111 and the UK research councils.There is art apparent and growing need for people with these skills within UK industries with diverse business focuses (proposal section 3). This is reflected by their involvement in this PSIBS DTC and their contributions to the training.Two key benefits of training cohorts of students rather than individually funded students are: (1) The PSIBS multi-disciplinary taught programme that will upgrade the skill- and knowledge-base of traditional UK bachelors-level single-discipline graduates to underpin and enable cross-disciplinary PhD research. (ii) The students will develop extensive and cross-disciplinary links and networks, both with other PSIBS students and the many PSIBS academics, which will persist throughout their future research careers.Imaging technology is evolving faster than the standard grant turnaround time and dynamic, responsive PhD research within a critical mass of experts will enable (a) rapid response and (b) cutting edge research against our overseas competitors (proposal section 4).
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