Development and Innovation in Medical Engineering

Activity summary

MEDIC is a research group focused on solving clinical needs using science and technology. Our developments are always geared towards the creation of products that can be directly used in patients and/or transferred to industry with minimal modifications for commercialisation. We also teach in different courses of the Biomedical Engineering Degree and the Telecommunication Technologies and Services Engineering Degree at the Polytechnic School of the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Contributions to society

There are over 2 billion people who lack the glasses they need. At MEDIC, we have developed low-cost technology to provide eyeglass prescriptions, which are currently marketed by PlenOptika Inc. (USA and Spain) and Aurolab (India).

We are also working on developing optoacoustic imaging technology to address unmet clinical needs. In particular, our systems are able to quantify the severity of different inflammatory dermatological diseases with an accuracy and reliability surpassing classical subjective scores.

Collaborations

• PlenOptika Inc (USA and Spain): Joint Technology Development.
• Aurolab (Tamil Nadu, India): Technology development for developing countries.
• Aravind EyeCare Hospital (Tamil Nadu, India): Clinical research.
• John Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Professor Nicholas Durr: Applied Research.
• 2eyes Vision SL (Madrid, Spain): Joint Technology Development.
• Department of Ophthalmology HUFJD: Clinical Research.
• Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging. Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich: Technology development through European projects.

PhD Theses

6.6.2-DES INN INGENIERÍA MED-TESIS

List of publications ordered by publication date

Quality control in clinical raster-scan optoacoustic mesoscopy.

He H, Fischer C, Darsow U, Aguirre J, Ntziachristos V.

Photoacoustics. 2024 Feb.35:100582.

PMID: 38312808

FI: 7,9

Ametropia detection using a novel, compact wavefront autorefractor.

Hernández CS, Gil A, Zaytouny A, Casares I, Poderoso J, de Lara A, Wehse A, Dave SR, Lim D, Lage E, Alejandre-Alba N.

Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 2023 Dec 12.

PMID: 38084770

FI: 2,9

Opening a window to skin biomarkers for diabetes stage with optoacoustic mesoscopy.

He H, Fasoula NA, Karlas A, Omar M, Aguirre J, Lutz J, Kallmayer M, Füchtenbusch M, Eckstein HH, Ziegler A, Ntziachristos V.

Light Sci Appl. 2023 Sep 18.12(1):231.

PMID: 37718348

FI: 19,4

Fast 3D Optoacoustic Mesoscopy of Neuromelanin Through Entire Human Midbrain Organoids at Single-Cell Resolution.

Englert, L; Lacalle-Aurioles, M; Mohamed, NV; Lépine, P; Mathur, M; Ntziachristos, V; Durcan, TM; Aguirre, J.

LASER & PHOTONICS REVIEWS. 2023. AUG. 17 (8).

PMID: 10.1002/lpor.202300443

FI: 11

Raster-scanning optoacoustic mesoscopy biomarkers for atopic dermatitis skin lesions.

Nau T, Schönmann C, Hindelang B, Riobo L, Doll A, Schneider S, Englert L, He H, Biedermann T, Darsow U, Lauffer F, Ntziachristos V, Aguirre J.

Photoacoustics. 2023 Jun.31:100513.

PMID: 37275325

FI: 7,9