Micro- and nano-technologies together with sensing and wireless innovations have been emerging recently as essential assets to enhance healthcare and life-science investigations. Cost and care efficiency, quality and efficacy in hospitals, as well as pharmacology and science discoveries have obtained great benefits from multidisciplinary researches. While micro- and nano-fabrication provided miniaturized sensors and systems with better sensitivity, selectivity and longevity at minimal power consumption; wireless technology and innovations in electronics helped in cutting healthcare cost, bringing convenience to patients and establishing distanced care which was recently defined as personalized- and tele-medicine of the mobile-health (m-Health) network. Towards this end, the objectives of HERO laboratory are to introduce a paradigm shift of applying innovative engineering tools for biological investigations and to bridge expertise in different fields providing novel healthcare devices.
Here are our current projects
- Acquisition and analysis of electrocardiogram in zebrafish for cardiac disease studies and drug screening
- Development of wireless pH sensing systems for biological and environmental monitoring
- Acquisition and extraction of fetal ECG and maternal ECG via an unobtrusive patch and a cloud system
- Non-contact electrode-based devices for electrophysiological monitoring
- Micro/nanofluidic devices for isolation and assessment of mitochondria
- EEG acquisition and analysis in rodents and humans for studies of neurological diseases, focusing on traumatic brain injury and epilepsi
- Dual L-glutamate/GABA microprobes to study the role of early life sleep disruption toward autism using the prairie vole model
- Acquisition and analysis of electrophysiology in Xenopus
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