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Mahajan - Transformative Healthcare 2050

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Sumeet Mahajan MSc, MTech, PhD, FHEA, FRSC

Prof of Molecular BioPhotonics & Imaging
Research interests
  • New chemical biology methods based on Raman spectroscopy and label-free imaging
  • Methodology and device development for commercialisation and clinical translation
  • Neuro-diagnostics and early detection of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases
Connect with Sumeet

Email: S.Mahajan@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests
  • Hollow Core Optical Fibres
  • Optical Communications
  • High Power Fibre Lasers
Connect with David

Email: djr@orc.soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Richard Oreffo DPhil DSc (Oxon) FMedSci FHEA FRSB FIOR

Research interests
  • Skeletal Regenerative MedicineSkeletal Stem Cells
Connect with Richard

Email: Richard.Oreffo@soton.ac.uk

Dr Lin Xu

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Mode-locked fibre lasers (Ytterbium & Thulium fibre systems); 
  • Nonlinear fibre amplifiers for ultrashort pulses; 
  • Mid-infrared fibre lasers (Optical parametric devices); 
Connect with Lin

Email: L.Xu@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Design and synthesis of quadrupolar A-D-A photon absorbing molecules: an investigation into their optical and bioimaging properties
Shufan Yang, Konstantinos Bourdakos, Hiroki Cook, Anna Crisford, Ewan Forsyth, Sumeet Mahajan & Mark Bradley, 2025, Dyes and Pigments, 239
DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2025.112785
Type: article
Harnessing Raman spectroscopy and multimodal imaging of cartilage for osteoarthritis diagnosis
Anna Crisford, Hiroki Cook, Konstantinos Bourdakos, Seshasailam Venkateswaran, Doug Dunlop, Richard O.C. Oreffo & Sumeet Mahajan, 2024, Scientific Reports, 14
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-83155-3
Type: article
Holistic vibrational spectromics assessment of human cartilage for osteoarthritis diagnosis
Hiroki Cook, Anna Crisford, Konstantinos Bourdakos, Doug Dunlop, Richard O.C. Oreffo & Sumeet Mahajan, 2024, Biomedical Optics Express, 15(7), 4264-4280
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.520171
Type: article
Double-clad antiresonant hollow-core fiber and its comparison with other fibers for multiphoton micro-endoscopy
Marzanna Szwaj, Ian A. Davidson, Peter B. Johnson, Greg Jasion, Yongmin Jung, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Krzysztof P. Herdzik, Konstantinos N. Bourdakos, Natalie V. Wheeler, Hans Christian Mulvad, David J. Richardson, Francesco Poletti & Sumeet Mahajan, 2024, Sensors, 24(8)
DOI: 10.3390/s24082482
Type: article
Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 inactivation using UVC laser radiation
George Devitt, Peter B. Johnson, Niall Hanrahan, Simon I.R. Lane, Magdalena C. Vidale, Bhavwanti Sheth, Joel D. Allen, Maria V. Humbert, Cosma M. Spalluto, Rodolphe C. Herve, Karl Staples, Jonathan J. West, Robert Forster, Nullin Divecha, Chris McCormick, Max Crispin, Nils Hempler, Graeme P.A. Malcolm & Sumeet Mahajan, 2024, ACS Photonics, 11(1), 42-52
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00828
Type: article