Professors Chuck Henry, Brian Geiss and David Dandy began a research collaboration in 2015 through the Office of the Vice President for Research at CSU.
Results from the team’s research will be published April 15 in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. The study, “An ultra-sensitive capacitive microwire sensor for pathogen-specific serum antibody responses,” is published in advance online.
Geiss, Dandy and Henry began a research collaboration in 2015 through the Catalyst for Innovative Partnerships program, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research at CSU. Their team, the Coalition for Development and Implementation of Sensor Systems, got its start through a two-year $200,000 seed grant.
The program nurtures faculty with similar goals but different scientific interests and know-how, and encourages them to synergize their expertise to come up with new solutions to important problems, said Geiss.
The interdisciplinary team was formed at a time when Geiss wanted to switch gears in his research. “At that point, my lab’s research was focused a lot on drug development, and I was interested in changing directions,” he said.
Tom Chen, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, also was involved in this team.
Collectively, they developed several different types of diagnostic sensing systems that can be used for detecting bacteria, nucleic acids and antibody responses to infections.
Dandy applauded Geiss’s collaborative spirit and the gains the team has made.
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