Centre Updates, October 2026
A summary of the latest news on funding, appointments, publications, events, and other updates connected to MedTechLabs in October 2026.
The programme ‘Continuous lactate monitoring and prevention of foetal hypoxia during labour’ has a new member of the research team: Vivek Srikumar has been appointed as a research assistant at KI and is working on the practical aspects of sensor development.
Within the research group, Anna Brammås has been awarded nearly 300,000 kronor by the R&D unit in Jämtland for her part-time post as a PhD student in 2027.
As previously announced, Ganesh Acharya is the new principal investigator (PI) from KI, succeeding Malin Holzmann in this programme.
Also, in the programme ‘Imaging the Epileptic Brain using Multimodal Quantum Sensors’, Ali Elshaari is the new principal investigator from KTH, succeeding Val Zviller.