Antifouling biosensor technology for bioanalytical detection in precision medicine

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Precision medicine is a relatively new activity in the field that concentrates on the disease experienced by a particular patient. Conditions vary from patient to patient because of genetic and environmental factors. A key component of this area of medicine is the assay of progression of a specific disease including the possibility for early detection. This involves the quantitative determination of biomarkers for the disease as they appear ion blood, urine and tissue samples. Biomarkers are species , for example, that are released by tumors that signal the presence of particular disease such as cancer, whether of a genetic of infectious type. This proposal describes research towards the assay of such moieties in human serum using biosensor technology. The latter involves the binding of the target biomarker at the surface of an electronic transducer. In the proposed work, such a device will be based on ultra-high frequency acoustic physics. A special component of this type of detection is the capability for operation in fluids such serum where large scale interference from proteins is anticipated. This proposal includes a strategy to prevent this deleterious effect.