Making sense of the dots

Dr Alistair Curd works alongside biologists and doctors to help diagnose diseases on a cellular level. By being able to identify patterns, they will be able to reduce waiting time for results and treatment.

I build particular types of microscope at the University, to look down into the details of living things. Down at tiny tiny, tiny detail. And so we can find out how the cells inside of us work.

—Dr Alistair Curd

Impact

• Knowledge discovery: found new, more efficient methods for identifying and diagnosing diseases
• Health impact: reduced waiting times for diagnoses, results and treatments

Key information

• Disciplines: biology, microscopy
• Investigators: Dr Alistair Curd

Keywords: molecular biology, cellular biology, microscopes, light microscopy, super-resolution microscopy, image processing and analysis, microscopy, diagnostics