Detection of Bioanalytes Using a Novel 3D Printed Sensor Technique
Recent COVID19 pandemic highlights the importance of the availability of fast/reliable biomarker detection schemes. Along with identification of a specific biomarker, there is a demand for the detection of several biomarkers simultaneously to provide additional information and improve diagnostics. Sensing devices available for simultaneous detection of several biomarkers are expensive and bulky, i.e. bench-top bio-analyzers, and limited to only a few analytes at most.
The proposed research addresses this issue with a novel bio-analyte sensor design scheme based for the first time on a configurable platform with simultaneous label-free detection of multiple biomarkers using minimal sample volumes. The platform is based on optical principles and additive manufacturing technology that had become feasible due to advanced developments in integrated photonics and additive manufacturing in recent years.
“The project is timely and highly topical. It is great to combine our efforts in realizing the main objectives of this project and the support provided by ECAS is much appreciated.“
“The opportunity presented by ECAS re-enables a good research collaboration possibility and will allow us to work together on state-of-the-art technology within the biomedical sensing field.“
Project Owners
Dr. Lourdes Alwis
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Lourdes S. M. Alwis obtained a First Class (Hons) degree in Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering from City University London, U.K., in 2005. She completed her Ph.D. thesis in the field of grating-based fiber optic sensors in 2013 at the same establishment, while working for R&D at Alcatel-Lucent Ltd., a company specializing in design, implementation, building, and testing of optical fiber telecommunications products. Completing her PhD and industrial experience in 2013, she joined Edinburgh Napier University, U.K., as a Lecturer in Electronic Engineering. Her current research focuses on avenues where optical fiber sensors can be utilized, such as civil infrastructure monitoring, chemical and biomedical sensing, and wearable technology.
Kort Bremer
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Kort Bremer is a scientific staff member at the Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies (HOT) at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. His research interests include optical sensors and optical communication; for instance, fiber optic pressure and temperature sensors, fiber optic gas sensors, reinforcement structures which are functionalized with fiber optic sensors for structural heath monitoring applications, mode-selective fiber couplers for spatial division multiplexing, as well as optical biosensors