Cooperation Type: Joint Research Project, Personnel Exchange, Joint Patent Application
Our group research interests are in bioanalytical chemistry, focusing on developing rapid, sensitive, and reliable methods for assaying the pathogenic agents, such as bacterial toxins and microbes, disease-related small molecules, peptides, and mi-croRNA, and applying these analytical methods to determine their levels in various biological fluids. These methods have great potential for application in clinical diag-nostics, food safety monitoring, epidemic control, and, most recently, counterterror-ism campaigns. In addition to the development of biosensors, we are also interested in designing novel, controlled-release drug delivery systems using nanotechnology, which help to overcome the dilemmas caused by the narrow therapeutic indexes of drugs. Such drug delivery vectors offer many advantages, including improved effica-cy and reduced toxicity.
