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University of Leicester team develops drug detection technology

Posted on 08/09/2009
University of Leicester

University of Leicester team develops drug detection technology

University of Leicester researchers have combined crime research and space-age technology in ways that could lead to the quick detection of counterfeit pharmaceuticals in a black market currently worth an estimated $40billion per year.

Professor George Fraser and Professor Martin Gill have combined their expertise of space physics and crime and security so that their Spectral ID project has been shortlisted for a Lord Stafford Award in the Innovation in Development category.

Borne out of collaboration between Perpetuity Research and Consultancy International (PRCI) - a spin out company of the University of Leicester- and the University