Dr Stamatia Giannarou - Imperial College London

Every successful operation depends on surgical skill to navigate the body. Pre-operative scans play a critical role, guiding surgeons like a map. But these are just snapshots. What if the map could be updated live – and even zoomed in and out?

Real-time, multi-scale imaging would give surgeons a 'sat nav' to precisely identify tissues, protect critical organs and even see beyond their scalpels before a cut is ever made.

Matina Giannarou, Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery at Imperial College London shares her vision for the future of surgery.