Electrical & Computer Engineering Seminar
Srivatsa Aithal, Ph.D.
Will present a talk entitled:
Multiplexed commercial point-of-care graphene sensors
Friday, March 24th, 2023
CAMP 176
Friday 4pm
Over zoom: https://clarkson.zoom.us/j/97883816982?pwd=SkFaQlUraW40QVByM2orS05FRU9RQT09
Abstract: The promise of biosensors as a low-cost, widely available, and precise analyte detection tool has not yet been fulfilled. When faced with complicated matrices, manufacturing limitations, lengthy development times, and high-test costs, nearly all advancements in these devices that have been demonstrated in labs have not translated well into the real world. Because of graphene’s excellent conductivity, biocompatibility, bipolar nature, and advances in graphene manufacturing at scale, biosensors may finally leave the lab. We have combined our dry-storage desiccation technology with low-cost graphene chips at Hememics. These chips, which are manufactured using non-cleanroom processes and off-the-shelf technologies, detect antigen and nucleic acid from a single sample in 5 minutes.
Short Bio. Dr. Srivatsa Aithal received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Sherbrooke University in Canada and was a MITACS postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University. His research has spanned included impedance spectroscopy, semiconductor photocorrosion, particle plasmon resonance, and carbon nanotube biosensors. He previously worked at Abnova in Taiwan on the development of a commercial protein sensor. His postdoctoral work, a test for Legionella pneumophila, has been commercialized. He is currently the Director of R&D at Hememics Biotechnologies, a diagnostics startup based out of Gaithersburg, Maryland.
At Hememics, he leads a team of scientists and engineers developing low-cost, multiplexed, room temperature stable, easy to use sensors. The team applies Hememics’ proprietary desiccation technology to solve preservation, storage and shipping problems associated with biosensors to develop a multiplexed molecular and antigen sensor.
*Co-Sponsored by IEEE student branch and HKN.
