Micro-fabricated Biosensors for Cardiac Diagnostics
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| Abstract | In this talk the current status of an ongoing effort in the Electrical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay on the development of an integrated systems to provide point-of-care diagnostic support for cardiovascular diseases will be presented. The system under development monitors the molecular markers to detect cardiac attacks, especially incipient cardiac attacks that go undetected before major/fatal attacks occur. The system comprises of “infarcSens” or “iSens,” which is a cantilever and molecular FET based affinity biosensor array for sensing myocardial infarction and subsequent cardiac status prognosis, using a suite of molecular markers. The sensing electronics and the associated data management software, for tracking the markers with time required for creating an epidemiological database, is also currently being developed. A multidisciplinary team from the departments of Electrical, Bioengineering, Chemistry, Material Science and Mechanical Engineering is currently working on this project, which is supported by the Govt. of India under the Nanoelectronics initiative. |
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Dr V. Ramgopal Rao obtained his doctorate from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Munich, Germany in 1997 after his post-graduate studies at IIT Bombay. After a two year post-doctoral research at the University of California at Los Angeles, he joined IIT Bombay, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. He is also the Chief Investigator for the Centre for Nanoelectronics project at IIT Bombay. Dr. Rao has over 200 publications in the area of Electron Devices & Nanoelectronics in refereed international journals and conference proceedings and holds three patents. Prof. Rao received the coveted Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences in 2005 for his work on Electron Devices. He is an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices in the CMOS Devices and Technology area and is a Distinguished Lecturer (DL), IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow, IETE. He received the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship award in 2003-2004, instituted by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India to mark 50 years of India’s independence. He is also a recipient of the 2007 IBM faculty award and the 2008 MRSI-ICSC Superconductivity & Materials Science Prize. |
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| Time | 04:45 PM, March 13, 2008 |
| Location | Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India |
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