Bioimaging technologies for enhanced healthcare
Creators: name: University Of California Office Of The President
Publisher: name: University of California Office of the President
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/00dmfq477
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Minimally-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic devices (endoscope, laparoscope, endovascular catheters, etc.) represent a rapid growing area in medicine and biomedical engineering. Many minimally invasive procedures have demonstrated significant benefits to both the patients and the health care system in terms of early detection, effective treatment, speedy recovery and lowered overall cost. Presently, diagnosis and surgical guidance of endoscopic and/or laparoscopic procedures are mostly based on video surveillance with needle biopsy, which is invasive, uncomfortable, expensive, and has a non-negligible procedural complication risks. Hence, there is a need to develop novel non-invasive functional diagnostic technologies to improve the diagnosis and guidance in minimally-invasive procedures. In the proposed collaborative research initiative, we will build on existing research to develop integrated, multimodality, next generation endoscopic technologies for minimally-invasive diagnoses and therapy. We will use well-established technologies for reliable, mass manufacturing of microelectronics, photonics, mechanical and fluidic components to create miniaturized, integrated, low-cost micro-opto-electro-mechanical sensing and imaging systems. This builds directly on our existing significant research excellence in disparate core technologies. Therefore, by organizing researchers from multiple disciplines into a more focused consortium, we will be able to tackle specific research challenges and integrate dissimilar technology components to create novel, sensitive and compact diagnostic and therapeutic devices. Building on mutual interests and complimentary expertise from key research groups in California and Canada, we will formalize collaborations, define overall research goals and strategies, and generate multilateral collaborations to research and technology develop engineering solutions to pressing problems in endoscopic diagnostic imaging. Specifically, we propose to develop a bilateral collaborative research and technology development roadmap by an expanded team of researchers from Canada and California who are focused on developing engineering solutions to enhance existing endoscopic diagnostic and treatment procedures. The research and development roadmap will result in strategies to establish a bilateral research network though market research, industry outreach, lobbying, and in exploring potential funding opportunities and specific new collaborative research projects targeted to existing unilateral and international funding programs. The proposed Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership Program (CCSIP) aims to promote Canada and California into a leadership role in the burgeoning area of biomedical technologies. This partnership will facilitate new collaborative research that can be rapidly translated into bedside practices. Researchers in the partnership will provide a repository of expertise which can be readily exploited by established and startup industry partners to accelerate and expand their product lines. The proposed research networks will involve clinicians, engineers, scientists, and industrial partners, thus ensuring medical and commercial relevance in the collaborative research projects.