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## The UJI welcomes the first Marie Curie researcher to develop the Glucotear European project

24/04/2018 |
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The Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has just welcomed the international researcher Wycliffe K. Kipnusu thanks to the fact that the Glucotear research project obtained the first Marie Sklodowska-Curie scholarship (individual scholarships modality) of the European Horizon 2020 programme of this academic institution.

Wycliffe K. Kipnusu has joined the Optical Research Group (GROC) that leds the Glucotear project, an initiative developed in collaboration with the Ophthalmology Service of the University General Hospital in Castelló and the company BQ. The objective of this European project is to design an optical sensor with nanoparticles, which can be integrated into the camera of smart mobile phones, so that the level of glucose in tears of people with diabetes can be detected in order to avoid blood extractions.

The researcher argues that scientific technology is usually expected to solve social problems. For this reason, he affirms, “the Glucotear project is a great opportunity to contribute to find solutions for the diabetic community”. “It is a great project that will add new dimensions to my scientific career, such as collaboration in research with the General Hospital in Castelló and the mobile phone company BQ in Madrid”, he adds.

On his behalf, the main researcher of the Glucotears project and director of the GROC, Jesús Lancis, also vice-rector for Research and Doctorate, recalls that photonic technologies and devices based on the use of light, as shown by this project funded by the European Commission, “have an increasingly significant role in solving the challenges faced by today's society, such as energy generation, energy efficiency, healthy aging, climate change or safety of population”.

Wycliffe K. Kipnusu took a master of science (Physics) in the Kenyatta University before moving to the University of Leipzig (Germany) where he completed his PhD in Physics at the Peter Debye Institute of Soft Matter Physics in 2015. He investigated how material properties, especially the glass transition temperature of soft materials, is affected by geometric nanoscale confinement. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification in Leipzig (Germany) and at the University of Potsdam (Germany) between 2015 and 2017.

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