Brian Cunningham,
Professor and Intel Alumni Endowed Chair,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Cunningham has been a faculty member in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the department Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2004, following a 15-year career in Industry. Prof. Cunningham’s technical focus is the utilization of photonics for biosensing in applications that include life science research, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and pharmaceutical screening. He has over 90 issued US patents and over 200 peer reviewed journal publications. He is a Fellow of NAI, IEEE, Optica, RSC, AAAS, and AIMBE. He serves as the Director of the Center for Genomic Diagnostics at the Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and as a Program Leader for the Cancer Center at Illinois on the topic of Cancer Measurement Technology and Data Science. In 2023, his technical contributions were recognized by Optica by the Michael S. Feld Biophotonics Award.
Smartphone Biosensors for Health, Environment, and Food Safety
Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 15:45
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Since their introduction in 1997, “smart” mobile phones with internet connectivity, high resolution cameras, touch-screen displays, and powerful CPUs have gained rapid market acceptance driven by a combination of falling prices and increasingly sophisticated features. In addition, there is a growing ecosystem of applications that take advantage of the phone’s sensors, display, and connection to powerful computing and data storage capabilities that are available in the “cloud.” The built-in capabilities of smartphones can be further extended through the addition of accessories that enable the phone to sense different types of information. Incorporation of biosensing into mobile platforms is a potentially powerful development, as biological assay capabilities that have previously only been available through expensive laboratory-based instruments may be utilized by anyone. Such developments may help to facilitate the goal of “personalized medicine” in which home-based tests may be used to diagnose a medical condition, but with a system that automatically communicates results to a cloud-based monitoring system that alerts the physician when warranted. Low-cost portable biosensor systems integrated with mobile devices may also enable diagnostic technology that can be translated to resource-poor regions of the world for pathogen detection, disease diagnosis, and monitoring of nutritional status. Such systems, deployed widely, would be capable of rapidly monitoring for the presence of environmental contaminants over large areas, or tracking the development of a medical condition throughout a large population. This talk will summarize recent developments in the Cunningham Group at Illinois in the utilization of integrated smartphone cameras as a high resolution spectrophotometer that is capable of measuring ELISA assays, label-free photonic crystal biosensor assays, thin film chromatography, and fluorescence spectroscopy. Utilizing special purpose, l
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