Prof Robert McLaughlin
Professor
School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science
College of Health
I am head of the Bioengineering Imaging Group at The University Adelaide, and am also Managing Director of the start-up company, Miniprobes. My team invent new optical devices to help doctors, physiologists and livestock producers. I currently lead a research team addressing two key challenges: developing non-invasive tools to assess blood flow; and developing highly miniaturised imaging probes, small enough to be encased within hypodermic needles. My team of engineers, physicists and computer scientists is based in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics and is part of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing.After three years as a researcher at the University of Oxford, I spent five years in the medical imaging industry, including as a Product Manager with Siemens Medical Solutions. I was responsible for the development of three medical devices, two with FDA regulatory approval.Returning to academia in 2007, I have focused on the development of optical imaging technologies, particularly optical coherence tomography and fluorescence. I have been awarded over $14M in research grants. With 19 years of research experience, I have a Google Scholar h-index of 45. I have co-authored 2 book chapters, 7 patents and 98 journal papers. I received the 2014 WA Innovator of the Year Award, and the 2015 Australian Innovation Challenge. In 2016, I was awarded the prestigious South Australian Premier’s Research and Industry Fund Research Fellowship.In 2014, I was appointed as a Councillor of the Australian Optical Society. In 2016, I was appointed Chair of Biophotonics at the University of Adelaide.
| Date | Type | Title | Institution Name | Country | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Award | The Australian Innovation Challenge | - | - | - |
| 2014 | Award | Western Australian Innovator of the Year, WA Department of Commerce | - | - | - |
| 2014 | Award | UWA Vice-Chancellor’s Mid-career Research Award | - | - | - |
| 2014 | Award | UWA Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Impact and Innovation | - | - | - |
| 2014 | Award | 1st prize, SPIE Start-up Challenge, San Francisco | - | United States | - |
| 2013 | Award | Finalist, Australian Museum Eureka Prizes: “Innovative Use of Technology” | - | - | - |
| 2012 | Award | Finalist, Australian Museum Eureka Prizes: “Innovative Use of Technology” | - | - | - |
| 2012 | Award | Finalist, Centenary Institute Lawrence Creative Prize | - | - | - |
| 2011 | Award | National Breast Cancer Foundation Patron’s Award: “Innovation and Vision in Research” | - | - | - |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | University of Western Australia | Australia | PhD (Electronic Engineering) |
| 1993 | University of Western Australia | Australia | Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Lorenser, D., McLaughlin, R. A., & Sampson, D. D. (2015). Optical coherence tomography in a needle format. In W. Drexler, & J. G. Fujimoto (Eds.), Optical Coherence Tomography Technology and Applications (2nd ed., pp. 2413-2472). Springer. |
| 2013 | McLaughlin, R. A., Lorenser, D., & Sampson, D. D. (2013). Needle probes in optical coherence tomography. In Handbook of Coherent Domain Optical Methods Biomedical Diagnostics Environmental Monitoring and Materials Science Second Edition (Vol. 2-2, pp. 1065-1102). DOI Scopus13 |
| 1994 | McLaughlin, R. A., & Alder, M. D. (1994). Recognising cubes in images. In E. S. Gelsema, & L. S. Kanal (Eds.), Machine Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (Vol. 16, pp. 59-73). ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBL B V. DOI Scopus4 WoS1 |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Zhang, Z., Qi, X., Chen, M., Li, G., Pham, R., Qassim, A., . . . To, M. S. (2024). JointViT: Modeling Oxygen Saturation Levels with Joint Supervision on Long-Tailed OCTA. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 14859 LNCS (pp. 158-172). Online: Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI Scopus5 WoS4 |
| 2021 | Golde, J., Walther, J., Li, J., McLaughlin, R. A., & Koch, E. (2021). Polarization-sensitive OCT using a single-mode fiber-based common-path probe. In B. J. Vakoc, M. Wojtkowski, & Y. Yasuno (Eds.), Proceedings - Optical Coherence Imaging Techniques and Imaging in Scattering Media IV; Vol. 11924 (pp. 3 pages). Washington, DC, USA: SPIE. DOI Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 2021 | Li, J., Capon, P. K., Horsfall, A. J., Yagoub, S., Schartner, E. P., Khalid, A., . . . Abell, A. D. (2021). Single-fiber-based probe for combined imaging and pH sensing. In Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC 2021) (pp. 1-2). online: IEEE. DOI |
| 2020 | Peng, L., Nguyen, L. V., Riesen, N., Li, J., Otten, D., Lancaster, D. G., . . . Warren-Smith, S. C. (2020). Towards distributed particle sensing using a few-mode exposed-core optical fibre with a spatially referenced evanescent field. In Proceedings of the 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-PR 2020 ) (pp. 1-2). online: OSA/IEEE. DOI |
| 2019 | Peng, L., Khalid, A., Warren-Smith, S. C., Arman, A., Schartner, E. P., Sylvia, G. M., . . . Li, J. (2019). Chemical sensing based on silk coated exposed-core fibers. In E. M. Goldys, & B. C. Gibson (Eds.), Biophotonics Australasia 2019 Vol. 11202 (pp. 112020G-1-112020G-2). Bellingham, Washington: SPIE. DOI |
| 2019 | Li, J., Quirk, B. C., Delhove, J., Kirk, R., Mc Carron, A., Cmielewski, P., . . . McLaughlin, R. A. (2019). Imaging genetically-modified cells with a miniaturised multimodal optical coherence tomography + fluorescence probem. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) (pp. 1-2). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. DOI Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 2019 | Stavrevski, D., Schartner, E. P., Abraham, A., Maksymov, I., Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H., McLaughlin, R. A., & Greentree, A. D. (2019). Micron scale thermometry using lanthanide doped tellurite glass. In Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP 2019), as published in Proceedings of SPIE - AOS Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) 2019 Vol. 11200 (pp. 112000Y-1-112000Y-2). Bellingham, Washington: SPIE. DOI |
| 2018 | Schartner, E., Li, J., Musolino, S., Quirk, B., Kirk, R., McLaughlin, R., & Ebendorff-Heidepriem, H. (2018). Imaging-aided temperature measurements with a single optical fiber for in-vivo sensing applications. In Optics InfoBase Conference Papers Vol. Part F114-FIO 2018 (pp. 1-2). online: OSA. DOI |
| 2017 | Phan, A., Karnowski, K., Lee, Q., Fejes, P., Quirk, B., McLaughlin, R., . . . Sampson, D. D. (2017). Preliminary results on in-vivo imaging of upper airway inhalation injuries using anatomical optical coherence tomography. In D. D. Sampson, D. L. Matthews, J. Popp, H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop, & B. C. Wilson (Eds.), Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 10340 (pp. 103401B). SPIE. DOI |
| 2017 | Gong, P., Es'Haghian, S., Harms, K., Murray, A., Rea, S., Wood, F., . . . McLaughlin, R. (2017). Extracting something from nothing: In vivo imaging of human cutaneous lymphatic vessels using optical coherence tomography. In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC 2016) (pp. 138-139). Online: IEEE. DOI |
| 2017 | Tan, L., Liew, Y., Lim, E., & McLaughlin, R. (2017). Cardiac left ventricle segmentation using convolutional neural network regression. In Proceedings of the IEEE EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES 2016) (pp. 490-493). Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA: IEEE. DOI Scopus25 WoS19 |
| 2016 | Villiger, M., Lorenser, D., McLaughlin, R. A., Quirk, B. C., Kirk, R. W., Bouma, B. E., & Sampson, D. D. (2016). Needle-based polarization-sensitive OCT of breast tumor. In J. A. Izatt, J. G. Fujimoto, & V. V. Tuchin (Eds.), OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY AND COHERENCE DOMAIN OPTICAL METHODS IN BIOMEDICINE XX Vol. 9697 (pp. 1 page). San Francisco, CA: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. DOI |
| 2016 | Sampson, D. D., Chin, L., Gong, P., Wijesinghe, P., Es'haghian, S., Allen, W. M., . . . McLaughlin, R. A. (2016). Parametric approaches to micro-scale characterization of tissue volumes in vivo and ex vivo: Imaging microvasculature, attenuation, birefringence, and stiffness (Conference Presentation). In R. R. Alfano, & S. G. Demos (Eds.), OPTICAL BIOPSY XIV: TOWARD REAL-TIME SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING AND DIAGNOSIS Vol. 9703 (pp. 1 page). San Francisco, CA: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. DOI |
| 2015 | Villiger, M., Lorenser, D., Quirk, B., Kirk, R., Lippok, N., Bouma, B., . . . Sampson, D. (2015). Polarization sensitive OCT with needle probes. In 2015 IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2015 (pp. 12-13). Reston, VA: IEEE. DOI |
| 2015 | Chin, L., Curatolo, A., Wijesinghe, P., Kennedy, K., McLaughlin, R., Kennedy, B., & Sampson, D. (2015). Sensitivity and resolution in optical coherence micro-elastography. In 2015 IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2015 (pp. 1-2). Reston, VA: IEEE. DOI Scopus2 |
| 2015 | Es'haghian, S., Gong, P., Kennedy, K., Wijesinghe, P., Sampson, D., McLaughlin, R., & Kennedy, B. (2015). In vivo optical elastography: Stress and strain imaging of human skin lesions. In Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9327 (pp. 1-8). San Francisco: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. DOI Scopus7 WoS4 |
| 2013 | McLaughlin, R. A., Lorenser, D., & Sampson, D. D. (2013). Fiber-optic needle probes: Applications in deep tissue Imaging. In Asia Communications and Photonics Conference ACP (pp. AF3K.3). OSA. DOI |
| 2013 | Kennedy, K. M., Kennedy, B. F., McLaughlin, R. A., Ford, C., Bush, M. B., & Sampson, D. D. (2013). Measuring elastic contrast in tissue using OCT needle probes. In J. G. Fujimoto, J. A. Izatt, & V. V. Tuchin (Eds.), Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 8571 (pp. 7 pages). San Francisco, CA: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. DOI Scopus1 WoS1 |
| 2013 | Chin, L., Yang, X., McLaughlin, R., Noble, P., & Sampson, D. (2013). Birefringence imaging for optical sensing of tissue damage. In M. Palaniswami, C. Leckie, S. Kanhere, & J. Gubbi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 8th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing: Sensing the Future, ISSNIP 2013 Vol. 1 (pp. 45-48). Melbourne, AUSTRALIA: IEEE. DOI Scopus3 WoS3 |
| 2012 | Kennedy, B. F., Kennedy, K. M., Ford, C., McLaughlin, R. A., Bush, M. B., & Sampson, D. D. (2012). Optical coherence elastography: Strain imaging in tissue using optical coherence tomography. In Y. Liao, W. Jin, D. D. Sampson, R. Yamauchi, Y. Chung, K. Nakamura, & Y. Rao (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 8421 (pp. 4 pages). PEOPLES R CHINA, Beijing: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. DOI Scopus1 |
| 2012 | Kennedy, K. M., Kennedy, B. F., McLaughlin, R. A., & Sampson, D. D. (2012). A new method of optical biopsy: Demonstration of mechanical contrast in deep tissue using an optical coherence elastography needle probe. In J. Canning, & G. Peng (Eds.), Proceedings Third Asia Pacific Optical Sensors Conference Vol. 8351 (pp. 835140-1-835140-5). Sydney, Australia: SPIE. DOI Scopus1 WoS2 |
| 2012 | Yang, X., Lorenser, D., Kirk, R. W., Pinniger, G. J., Grounds, M. D., McLaughlin, R. A., & Sampson, D. D. (2012). 3D imaging of internal structures of skeletal muscle with an ultrathin side-viewing optical needle probe. In NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS Vol. 22 (pp. 825). Perth, AUSTRALIA: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. DOI |
| 2011 | Sampson, D., Quirk, B., Curatolo, A., Scolaro, L., Kirk, R., Lorenser, D., . . . McLaughlin, R. (2011). Microscope-in-a-needle technology for deep-tissue 3D imaging. In 2011 ICO International Conference on Information Photonics, IP 2011 (pp. 2 pages). Ottawa, ON, Canada: IEEE. DOI Scopus3 |
| 2011 | Kirk, R. W., McLaughlin, R. A., Quirk, B. C., Curatolo, A., & Sampson, D. D. (2011). 3D visualization of tissue microstructures using optical coherence tomography needle probes. In W. J. Bock, J. Albert, & X. Bao (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 7753 (pp. 4 pages). Ottawa, CANADA: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. DOI Scopus1 |
| 2011 | Yang, X., McLaughlin, R., Lorenser, D., Kirk, R., Noble, P., & Sampson, D. (2011). In situ 3D imaging of alveoli with a 30 gauge side-facing optical needle probe. In Proceedings of the 2011 7th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, ISSNIP 2011 (pp. 68-72). Online: IEEE. DOI |
| 2010 | Liew, Y. M., McLaughlin, R. A., Curatolo, A., & Sampson, D. D. (2010). Assessment and correction of imaging artifacts in skin imaging using fibre-based optical coherence tomography. In 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology Acoft 2010. |
| 2010 | Liew, Y. M., Ward, S., McLaughlin, R. A., Wood, F., Palmer, L., & Sampson, D. S. (2010). VISUALIZATION OF SUB-SURFACE STRUCTURES IN SCAR TISSUE USING OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY. In WOUND REPAIR AND REGENERATION Vol. 18 (pp. A67). WILEY-BLACKWELL. |
| 2009 | Williamson, J. P., Armstrong, J. J., McLaughlin, R. A., Sampson, D. D., Regli, A., Walsh, J. H., . . . Eastwood, P. R. (2009). Regional Airway Compliance in Asthma Measured Using Anatomical Optical Coherence Tomography. In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Vol. 179 (pp. 1 page). AMER THORACIC SOC. |
| 2009 | McLaughlin, R. A., Scolaro, L., Klyen, B. R., Hamza, S., Robbins, P., Saunders, C., & Sampson, D. D. (2009). Lymph node micro-architecture can be imaged using optical coherence tomography. In CANCER RESEARCH Vol. 69 (pp. 102S). San Antonio, TX: AMER ASSOC CANCER RESEARCH. |
| 2009 | McLaughlin, R., Scolaro, L., Robbins, P., Saunders, C., Jacques, S., & Sampson, D. (2009). Mapping tissue optical attenuation to identify cancer using optical coherence tomography. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 5762 LNCS (pp. 657-664). DOI Scopus4 |
| 2009 | McLaughlin, R. A., Williamson, J. P., Curatolo, A., Baker, V. A., Hillman, D. R., Eastwood, P. R., & Sampson, D. D. (2009). In vivo 4D imaging of the human lower airway using anatomical optical coherence tomography. In J. D. C. Jones (Ed.), Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 7503 (pp. 75034X). SPIE. DOI |
| 2008 | McLaughlin, R. A., Armstrong, J. J., Becker, S., Walsh, J. H., Kirkness, J., Jain, A., . . . Sampson, D. D. (2008). Respiratory gating of endoscopic OCT images of the upper airway. In D. Sampson, S. Collins, K. Oh, & R. Yamauchi (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 7004 (pp. 4 pages). AUSTRALIA, Perth: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. DOI Scopus2 |
| 2008 | Armstrong, J. J., Becker, S., McLaughlin, R. A., Leigh, M. S., Williamson, J., Walsh, J. H., . . . Sampson, D. D. (2008). Anatomical optical coherence tomography: A safe and effective tool for quantitative long-term monitoring of upper airway size and shape. In N. Kollias, B. Choi, H. Zeng, R. S. Malek, B. J. F. Wong, J. F. R. Ilgner, . . . S. J. Madsen (Eds.), Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 6842 (pp. 16 pages). CA, San Jose: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. DOI Scopus4 |
| 2008 | McLaughlin, R. A., Scolaro, L., Klyen, B. R., Hamza, S., Robbins, P., Saunders, C., & Sampson, D. D. (2008). Can normal lymph node architecture be characterised by optical coherence tomography?. In A. Podoleanu (Ed.), Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 7139 (pp. xv-xvii). Canterbury, ENGLAND: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. |
| 2002 | McLaughlin, R. A., & Noble, J. A. (2002). Demarcation of aneurysms using the seed and cull algorithm. In T. Dohi, & R. Kikinis (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics Vol. 2488 (pp. 419-426). JAPAN, TOKYO: SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN. DOI Scopus12 WoS6 |
| 2002 | McLaughlin, R. A., Hipwell, J., Hawkes, D. J., Alison Noble, J., Byrne, J. V., & Cox, T. (2002). A comparison of 2D-3D intensity-based registration and feature-based registration for neurointerventions. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics Vol. 2489 (pp. 517-524). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. DOI Scopus38 |
| 1996 | McLaughlin, R. A. (1996). Randomized Hough Transform: Better ellipse detection. In IEEE Region 10 Annual International Conference Proceedings TENCON Vol. 1 (pp. 409-414). AUSTRALIA, UNIV W AUSTR, PERTH: IEEE. Scopus29 WoS11 |
| 1995 | McLaughlin, R. A., & Alder, M. D. (1995). Hough transform and The UpWrite: A comparison. In IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks Conference Proceedings Vol. 1 (pp. 146-151). |
| 1995 | McLaughlin, R. A., & Alder, M. D. (1995). Recognition of infra red images of aircraft rotated in three dimensions. In Anziis 1995 Proceedings of the 3rd Australian and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Systems (pp. 82-87). IEEE. DOI Scopus3 |
| 1995 | McLaughlin, R. A., & Alder, M. D. (1995). The Haugh Transform and the UpWrite: A comparison.. In 1995 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1-6 (pp. 146-151). AUSTRALIA, UNIV W AUSTRAIA, PERTH: IEEE. |
| 1994 | McLaughlin, R. A., & Alder, M. D. (1994). Recognizing aircraft: Automatic extraction of structure by layers of quadratic neural nets. In IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks Conference Proceedings Vol. 7 (pp. 4288-4293). FL, ORLANDO: I E E E. Scopus4 WoS2 |
| 1994 | deSilva, M. A. C., & McLaughlin, R. (1994). Topological stochastic grammars. In IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings (pp. 191). IEEE. DOI |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Liu, J., Geremew, D., Sandeman, L. Y., Nankivell, V. A., Chen, R., Xiang, L., . . . Bursill, C. A. (2025). Development of a novel murine model of in-stent neoatherosclerosis. DOI |
Grants: TOTAL: $10million
| $1mil |
2020-2022 Medical Research Futures Fund (MRFF) BioMedTechHorizons 3 (BMTH3.0_104) “A smart brain biopsy needle for faster, safer brain surgery” (McLaughlin, Wells) |
| $992,112 |
2021-2023 NHMRC Ideas grant (APP2001646) “Serial imaging of molecular and microstructural changes in atherosclerosis: tracking plaques towards destabilisation” (Li, Verjans, McLaughlin) |
| $899,877 |
2021-2023 NHMRC Ideas grant (APP2002254) “Next-generation smart wound dressings for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of infection and neovascularisation in burns” (Gibson, McLaughlin, Khalid, Rea) |
| $256,000 |
2021-2022 Office of Naval Research Global, USA “Heat tolerance in humans” (Green, McLaughlin, Malone, Carter) |
| $223,000 |
2020-2021 Meat & Livestock Australia Donor Company (MDC) (Ref. P.PSH.1244) “Automated assessment of intramuscular fat in lamb” (Pitchford, McLaughlin, van den Hengel) |
| $753,010 |
2019-2022 NHMRC Development Grant (APP1178912) “Development of a smart needle for safer, faster brain biopsies” (McLaughlin, Wells) |
| $170,000 |
2020 Australian Wool Innovation “On-farm assessment of wool follicle density and diameter” (McLaughlin, Pitchford) |
| $50,000 |
2019-2020 Global Connections Fund Bridging Grant, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering “Development of an image-guided electrode for safer cochlear implant surgery” (McLaughlin) |
| $261,300 |
2019 ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LE190100124) “3D Glass Printing: The Next Step in Advanced Manufacturing” (Ebendorff-Heidepriem, McLaughlin, Withford, Lancaster, Priest, Ghomashchi) |
| $50,000 |
2019 Meat & Livestock Australia “Rapid measurement of intramuscular fat in lamb using imaging needles” (McLaughlin) |
| $200,000 |
2018 South Australian Early Commercialisation Fund, Dept. State Development, South Aust. Govt. “Development of photonics enabled imaging needles for industrial and surgical use” (McLaughlin) |
| $45,000 |
2018 Photonics Catalyst Program “Bringing microscopic quality control to manufacturing” (McLaughlin, Li) |
| $80,000 |
2016 University of Adelaide, Commercialisation Acceleration Scheme “Smart needles for safer and more effective brain surgery” (McLaughlin) |
| $1,000,000 |
2016-2019 South Australian Premier’s Research and Industry Fund Fellowship (McLaughlin) |
| $482,200 |
2016-2018 ARC Discovery Grant (DP160104175) “Visualising vascular adaptation at the micro-scale in humans” (Green, McLaughlin) |
| $45,000 |
2016 Photonics Catalyst Program, South Australian Govt. “Image-guided surgery for safer and faster glaucoma treatment” (McLaughlin, Casson, Previn) |
| $47,500 |
UWA NHMRC Equipment Grant, “Philips Premium Portable CX50 Ultrasound System” (Noble, Pillow, Gill, Laing, Nowak, McLaughlin, Kennedy, Hodgetts, Pinniger) |
| $355,100 |
2015-2017 ARC Discovery Grant (DP150104660) “Quantitative multi-modal optical imaging of deep tissue – a new window onto disease” (McLaughlin) |
| $16,500 |
UWA Research Collaboration Award 2015-2016 (McLaughlin) |
| $5,000 |
SPIE Education Outreach Grant 2015 (McLaughlin) |
| $16,645 |
2015 Medical and Health Research Infrastructure Fund (MHRIF), Round 18, Dept. Health. (McLaughlin) |
| $726,676 |
2014-2016 Chevron Australia / Fiona Wood Foundation “Measuring airway capacity using optical coherence tomography” (McLaughlin, Sampson) |
| $64,000 |
2015 Intuitive Surgical Technology Research Grant (San Francisco, USA), “Smart biopsy needles for real-time tissue assessment in lung cancer” (McLaughlin, Sampson) |
| $25,000 |
2015 Breast Cancer Research Centre WA (BCRC_WA 201406), “Fluorescent biomarkers for improved breast cancer surgery” (McLaughlin, Fuller) |
| $317,111 |
2014-2016 NHMRC Development Grant (APP1076050), “Development of microscope-in-a-needle devices for improved clinical diagnostics” (McLaughlin, Sampson, Noble, Yeoh, Olynyk) |
| $50,000 |
2014 Commercialisation Australia (CAU06334), Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIISRTE) “Business plan for microscope-in-a-needle imaging technology” (McLaughlin, Sampson) |
| $13,407 |
2014 Medical and Health Research Infrastructure Fund (MHRIF), Round 17, Dept. Health. (McLaughlin) |
| $15,000 |
2013 UWA Research Collaboration Award “The next generation microscope-in-a-needle: Fluorescence + optical coherence tomography to find cancer” (McLaughlin, Boudoux) |
| $99,537 |
2013 Cancer Council WA Research Project Grant (ID 1057820), “Intra-operative assessment of lymph node metastasis in breast cancer with optical imaging” (McLaughlin, Saunders, Sampson) |
| $20,000 |
2013 UWA Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Research Development Grants, “Optical coherence tomography for quantitative assessment of burn scars” (McLaughlin) |
| $98,551 |
2012 Cancer Council WA Research Project Grant (ID 1052459), “Pre-operative assessment of neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer using optical coherence tomography” (McLaughlin, Saunders, Sampson) |
| $15,000 |
2012 Royal Perth Hospital Medical Research Foundation, “Early detection of pathological scarring using 3D optical imaging” (McLaughlin, Wood, Kennedy, Sampson) |
| $539,685 |
2012-2014 NHMRC Development Grant (APP1038871) “Development of a new surgical-guidance tool for intra-operative tumour margin assessment in breast cancer” (McLaughlin, Saunders, Sampson) |
| $200,000 |
2012 National Breast Cancer Foundation Novel Concept Award, “A new tool for intra-operative tumour margin assessment”. (McLaughlin, Saunders, Sampson, Kennedy) |
| $300,000 |
2011-2013 Cancer Council WA Research Fellowship “Improved intra-operative breast cancer imaging with OCT” (McLaughlin) |
| $25,760 |
2010 UWA Safety Net Award, (McLaughlin) |
|
$21,411 |
2010 Perpetual Ltd., “Better imaging to improve cancer surgery” (McLaughlin, Kennedy, Saunders, Sampson) |
| $90,000 |
2009 Perpetual Ltd., “A new breast cancer imaging probe: combining ultrasound with optical biopsy”. (McLaughlin, Saunders, Sampson) |
| $198,640 |
2008 National Breast Cancer Foundation Novel Concept Award, “Steps towards an in vivo optical biopsy: Assessing lymph node metastasis using Optical Coherence Tomography”. (McLaughlin, Saunders, Sampson) |
| $22,000 |
2008 UWA Research Grants Scheme, “Improved Breast Cancer Surgery with Optical Imaging”. (McLaughlin) |
| $267,029 |
2007 Raine Medical Research Foundation, “Bringing Optical Imaging into clinical practice for breast cancer and breathing disorders”. (McLaughlin) |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Leveraging 3D Printing, Beam-Shaping, and Ultrahigh-Resolution Techniques for Improved Cardiovascular Imaging | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Claudia Imiolczyk |
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Continuous imaging of molecular and microstructural changes in atherosclerosis by a 3d-printed multimodal endoscope | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Yujia Kong |
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Leveraging 3D Printing, Beam-Shaping, and Ultrahigh-Resolution Techniques for Improved Cardiovascular Imaging | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Claudia Imiolczyk |
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Continuous imaging of molecular and microstructural changes in atherosclerosis by a 3d-printed multimodal endoscope | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Yujia Kong |
| 2022 | Co-Supervisor | Multimodal imaging probe for atherosclerotic plaque detection | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Rouyan Chen |
| 2022 | Co-Supervisor | Multimodal imaging probe for atherosclerotic plaque detection | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Rouyan Chen |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 - 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Optimising photopharmacology for future clinical applications | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Miss Kathryn Angela Palasis |
