Prof. Liu has been awarded £44,857 by the Medical Research Council (Impact Acceleration Account) as PI for preclinical assessment of a vibrational device for early bowel cancer diagnosis. This grant will allow the knowledge exchange fellow, Dr Kenneth Afebu (a postdoctoral research fellow of Prof. Liu’s team) to work with the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for nine months to de-risk the technology of AI-assisted capsule (see figure below) and create a clear road map for future development.

Conceptual design and real-world prototype of the vibrational capsule system for early bowel cancer detection (Picture source: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 2341-2348, April 2023).