Microfluidic Nanoshearing Device for Cancer Diagnostics
Project summary
Microfluidic platforms hold great promise for sensitive and early detection of cancer in a resource limited environment. These devices coupled with electrochemical detection have become an enabling technology for point-of-care and personalised diagnostics due to its capabilities of simplicity, portability, low cost and their performance of multiplexed and quantitative measurements, ideally in a high-throughput format.
In this project, we fabricate microfluidic devices that contain asymmetric electrodes. The electrodes will be used to sense a broad range of cancer relevant biomarkers (e.g., proteins, DNA, RNA, cells) in biological and clinical samples.
Students will achieve hands-on experience in the application of the microfluidic devices and electrochemical microbiosensors for cancer diagnostics.
Research Group
Keywords
Biosensors, microfluidics, microfabrication, electrochemical detection, cancer biomarker
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