Nandita is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering who joined Dr. Coté’s lab in 2019. Her research focuses on developing point-of-care diagnostics devices for monitoring cardiovascular diseases like heart failure and preeclampsia, by using lateral flow assays and paperfluidics. She is leading multiple assay developments using antibodies and nucleic acids like aptamers and microRNAs for biorecognition, and nanoparticle syntheses and functionalizations for detection. She is also leveraging computational modelling, optical, electrochemical, and material characterization techniques such as SERRS, colorimetry, TEM and SEM, for the verification of these devices. She holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from NYU Abu Dhabi, with a minor in Economics.