The project was awarded £6.1M of funding in 2020 through EPSRC’s “Transformative Healthcare Technologies for 2050” call, and officially started on the 1st of January 2021.

The u-Care vision is to bring together a world leading team of engineers, physicists, biologists and clinician scientists based at Heriot Watt University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Bath, in order to develop cutting-edge new healthcare technologies based on the unique properties of deep ultraviolet light. At the core of the u-Care ethos is our aim of co-creating these technologies with patient groups, charities, healthcare professionals and relevant industry.