Diagnostics and monitoring | London Centre for Nanotechnology

Preparing the NHS for a digital future

by Eamonn Boylan | Jul 3, 2018 | News, Outreach

As the NHS celebrates its 70th anniversary, LCN academic and i-sense EPSRC IRC Director, Professor Rachel McKendry, is helping to assess how new technologies including genomics, artificial intelligence and bionanotechnology, will shape the future of healthcare in the...

Promising new technology for diagnosing immunity to Ebola

by Cristina Escalona-Lopez | Jan 17, 2018 | News, Publication, Research Highight

New research from i-sense at Imperial College London and UCL, encompassing LCN researchers, provides a promising new approach to detecting immunity to Ebola virus infection. Since the major Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, a wide number of diagnostic tools have...

EPSRC announce £3.8M in IRC Next Steps funding for i-sense

by Eamonn Boylan | Dec 6, 2017 | News

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have announced £3.8M in IRC Next Steps funding awarded to i-sense for the their pioneering development of agile early warning sensing systems for infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance. Led by LCN...

New EPSRC Grant awarded to LCN academic

by Eamonn Boylan | Dec 4, 2017 | News

Q-NEURO -Diamond Quantum Technology for the Investigation of Neurological disease. Congratulations to Professor Richard Jackman, LCN academic and Chair in Electronic Devices from UCL EEE, who has just been awarded £225k by the EPSRC (Grant Reference: EP/R026203/1)...

Diagnosing HIV at record speeds

by Lijun Wang | Sep 21, 2017 | News, Publication, Research Highight

New research from LCN-based i-sense just published in Scientific Reports, shows promising developments towards a mobile phone-connected diagnostic tool that can detect HIV within seconds. Early detection of HIV plays an important role in containing outbreaks, however...