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Welcome to the website of the Gardner Lab. The group is headed by Professor Peter Gardner who has 25 years of research experience in the field of vibrational spectroscopy. For the last 10 years the group has focused on the development of vibrational and related spectroscopies for biomedical applications with a particular interest in cancer diagnosis.

Here you can find out more about group members, the group’s activities, current research, and PhD studentships. There are also conference reports and news items that we will try and keep up to date.

We hope you find this site useful and please feel free to contact us for more information if required.

HOT Paper!

Our article on Highlighting a need to distinguish cell cycle signatures from cellular responses to chemotherapeutics in SR-FTIR spectroscopy by Caryn, Frank, Geri and Peter, together with Mick Brown and Noel Clarke from the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research and Kevin Flower from the School of Chemistry, has been awarded Hot Paper status by Analyst.

The article is free to read until 30 November 2012.

Reference:
Highlighting a need to distinguish cell cycle signatures from cellular responses to chemotherapeutics in SR-FTIR spectroscopy
C. Hughes, M. D. Brown, F. J. Ball, G. Monjardez, N. W. Clarke, K. R. Flower and P. Gardner
Analyst, 2012, 137, 5736-5742
DOI: 10.1039/C2AN35633C