Selected Grad Theses
K. Davoudian, PhD, Surface chemistry strategies for acoustic wave biosensing with application to the early detection of ovarian cancer N. Lotay,PhD Shining light on ovarian cancer: a chemiluminescent biosensor using magnetic particles for the detection of lysophosphatidic acid: a promising ear-stage ovarian cancer biomarker E. Chan, PhD., Novel silane surface chemistry for covalent immobilization with N-protected histidine: Towards improved functionalization of hydroxylated materials with his-tagged biomolecules J. Madden, PhD., Development and characterization of macro-disc and micro-band electrodes for electrochemical sensing applications, University College Cork, National University of Ireland), MT supervisorB. De La Franier, PhD, Detection of lysophosphatidic acid in serum: Towards a cost-effective test for ovarian cancer
N. Crawley, M.Sc., Development of a multiplexed panel assay for the rapid detection of bacterial resistance to β-lactam antibiotics using liquid chromatography – tandem mass spectrometry
K. Fedorov, PhD., Surface modification of commonly used polymer plastics for increased hemocompatibility in medical equipment.
V. Crivianu-Gaita, M.Sc., Acoustic wave biosensor for the detection of the breast cancer metastasis biomarker protein PTHrP.
R. Ravindranath, M.Sc., Investigating the use of a biologically active surface coating for coronary stent devices: A new approach to improving biocompatibility.
J. Chen, M.A.Sc., Towards Construction of a Biosensor for the Detection of Early-Stage Ovarian Cancer: Evaluation of Novel DNA Aptamers for the Capture of Biomarker HSP10
H, T. Wong, M.Sc., Polymixin B-modified glass beads: an alternative approach to reduce lipopolysaccharide toxicity in blood
M.A.D. Neves, PhD, Development of an ultra-high frequency aptamer based sensor platform for small molecule detection.
T. Yang, M.Sc., Anti-thrombogenic study of ultrathin monoethylene glycol adlayer on 316L stainless steel against whole human blood,
J. Sheng, Ph.D., Assembling surface linker chemistry and minimization of biosensor non-specific adsorption
P. Benvenuto, Ph.D.,Self-assembled monolayer-based surface modification of stainless steel for oriented antibody immobilization: Towards improved stent biocompatibility.
E. Chan, M.A.Sc., Surface fuctionalization of piezoelectric aluminum nitride with selected amino acid and peptides.
N. Pawlowska, M.Sc., Probing the hydration of ultrathin antifouling adlayers using neutron reflectometry.
S. Sheikh, Ph.D., Antifouling and antithrombogenic ultrathin surface chemistry for bioanalytical and biomedical applications