Seminar

Electrochemical Biosensors for Personalized Medicine

Gabriel Ortega

Biosensors are becoming increasingly important in modern healthcare. The ability of biosensors to perform measurements with minimal intervention from the user, directly at the point-of-care, and even in vivo, will enable a new approach to healthcare, more personalized and more focused on prevention. To achieve this, my research focuses on electrochemical sensors. This sensing platform is capable of performing reagent-less, quantitative measurements directly in vivo, and is generalizable to the detection of many targets of very different chemistries. The ability to perform continuous, in vivo measurements will allow us to monitor in real time drugs, hormones, metabolites, and other biomarkers of clinical or biological relevance. In this talk, I will showcase some of my work in the development of new sensors, their application to study individualized pharmacokinetics, and the implementation of new biological receptors.