A strategic partnership has been formed between ChG Southampton Ltd and the Dept of Maxillofacial Surgery, Guy's Hospital to develop a prototype fibre device for endoscopic laser power delivery at 2.9 microns for the treatment of salivary duct stones. Every year thousands of UK patients are admitted to hospital for the treatment of salivary duct stones. The cost of these procedures could be reduced significantly through minimally invasive laser surgery while also providing enhanced health care benefits to the patients.
ChG Founder Dan Hewak with Dr Chris Sproat of Guy's Hospital London and the optical fibre they are developing for minimally invasive surgery.
Currently under development, our laser delivery product is scheduled to undergo clinical trials in late 2005.
Following the successful demonstration of this optical fibre product, we will be able to widen our business to other related laser surgery applications.
ChG Southampton Ltd is a spin out from the world renowned Optoelectronics Research Centre. With a forty year history in the area of novel glasses and optical fibre, the ORC provides a solid background for ChG Southampton Ltd and its products. The company has an access agreement with the ORC, which provides us with all required laboratory and characterization facilities.
For further details see www.orc.soton.ac.uk
Ilika is a science-led materials discovery company using cutting edge high throughput techniques to create and characterize libraries of novel materials. Ilika and the Optoelectronics Research Centre are now collaborating in the development and characterization of a new family of phase change materials for data storage.
For further details see www.ilika.com
SETsquared helps early-stage, high-tech, high-growth potential ventures get on the road to success. They have provided ChG Southampton Ltd with serviced office space, business guidance and mentoring as well as access to a high-calibre network of experienced entrepreneurs, potential investors and business professionals.
A partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey, SETsquared is the largest government-funded, privately-backed support programme of its kind in the UK. Since being set up in 2002 SETsquared has supported more than 100 ventures. Much of their success comes from the unique way we bring together the research strengths of the universities and private sector commercial expertise.
For further details see www.setsquared.co.uk