Conrad Merkle, principal investigator at MedUni Vienna’s Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded a “Starting Grant” from the European Research Council (ERC) with funding of €1.5 million over five years for his project “Total Optical Coherence Characterization for Automated Tumor Analysis” or TOCCATA.
The TOCCATA project aims to develop new medical imaging technology to better characterize tumor tissue samples with the goal of improving personalized medicine.