I am an Associate Professor / Principle Investigator at Heriot-Watt University, where I am growing my research group as the one of the PIs within the larger Photonic Instrumentation group (with Robert Thomson and Calum Ross).
Someone wrote a thing about me here:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grid-hwu_engineeringhealth-photonics-cancerinnovation-activity-7288212536867364865-AESM
Medical applications
For a number of years I have been working in strong collaboration with the University of Edinburgh Medical School
Application of my work to healthcare is often through the Translational Healthcare Technologies group at Edinburgh.
Details here:
Me:
Mike Tanner – (click for institutional profile)
M.G. Tanner
Associate Professor / Principle Investigator, (Heriot-Watt University)
Honorary / Visitor (University of Edinburgh)
Lab members:
Dr András Kufcsák – Postdoc (click title for profile)
Dr Andrew Green – Postdoc (click title for profile)
Ife Ejidike – PhD (click title for profile)
Caitlin Tye – PhD (click title for profile)
Mathew Douglas (PhD) – starting Oct 2024
Wider Team
Just some of the people directly working on projects led by TannerLab
Paul Fineran – Project/Quality Manager, THT – Managing our MRC funded device translation to clinic
Tom Craven – Clinician, NHS Lothian – Co-I clinical lead on our Managing our funded device translation to clinic
Jo Mair – THT – Supporting clinical translation
Katie Hamilton – NHS/THT – Supporting clinical translation
Becky Wheeler – THT – Project support
any probably others that I forgot to mention….
Alumni / Completed students:
Eunan McShane (PhD) -finished PhD, moved to a MedTech industry job in N. Ireland.
Hari Chandrasekharan (PostDoc) – moved on, still at HWU
Filip Angelov (Research technician) – moved on
PhD completed, postdoc abroad, back to PhI, and now off to National Institute of Health (USA).
PhD completed, continued the work in a linked industry project. Came back to the PhI group, then off to California to work in a leading group translating photonics to clinic.
Tanner Lab 