The Photons+ Ultrasound Research Laboratory (PURL) at King’s College London was founded in 2018 within the Department of Surgical and Interventional Engineering, part of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences. Our mission is to transform the ways that surgical and interventional procedures are performed via ground-breaking technological innovations. We are fascinated by how light and sound interact with biological tissue, and how these interactions can be used to develop powerful tools for imaging and sensing inside the body. Our work focuses on advancing photoacoustics and related approaches, from technology development to clinical translation, with the ultimate goal of making surgical and interventional procedures safer, more precise, and more effective for patients.​

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We are grateful for the funding support provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the European Research Council. We are closely linked to the ERC Synergy Grant EndoTheranositics project and the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering and are collaborating with the Beijing Institute of Collaborative Innovation on a translational project. Our PhD students are supported by the King’s Medical Research Trust, the King’s-China Scholarship Council PhD Scholarship programme, the ESPRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Engineering for Personalised Surgery & Intervention, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Smart Medical Imaging​ and the MRC Doctoral Training Partnership in Biomedical Sciences.