New eye research 'could use cable assemblies'

Date: 29/9/2011

Multiwire cable assemblies could be among the equipment used as scientists look to step up medical eye research.

A University of Bristol Immunology and Ophthalmology research team has joined up with Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London Institute of Ophthalmology in a specialist National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre.

The move comes as a result of an earlier announcement last month that saw the National Institute of Health Research pledge to allocate £800 million of government money to help fund such initiatives around the UK.

Such investment could mean a whole host of medical equipment - for which multiwire cable assemblies are often used - being purchased and used at a number of research centres.

Professor Andrew Dick, faculty research director for medicine and dentistry at the University of Bristol and head of the Academic Unit of Ophthalmology in the School of Clinical Sciences, will be the leader of the inflammation and immunotherapeutics theme at the facility.

He said: "This is a major funding boost for eye research. The award will support our endeavours in experimental medicine, creating between the sites an unparalleled platform of both scientific and clinical resource in the field of ocular inflammation."

An application for the financing was submitted to the Department of Health earlier in the summer and subsequently assessed by an international selection panel.

The high amount offered was significantly greater than expected and the research group in Bristol will now be able to support other subject areas, such as ocular imaging and gene therapy.

This news comes after it was announced that a new healthcare-based facility has opened up in Bristol.

As such, multiwire cable assemblies could be used as scientist look to gain a deeper understanding of their field while working in the Clinical Research and Imaging Centre on St Michael's Hill.

Standard coaxial and multiwire Cable Assemblies are just part of Quadrant's extensive range of cable assembly and cable terminating abilities.
 

Posted by Jason Page