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Diana is a postdoctoral researcher in Biomedical Engineering who joined Dr. Cote’s lab in August 2022. Currently, she is working on two main research projects. One involves developing a dual-model sensing system (colorimetry/SERS) based on lateral flow assays using a unique combination of nanomaterial complexes. The second project involves developing an implantable fluorescent sensor for monitoring glucose concentration using competitive binding assays.

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Andrea Locke, Ph.D., is an assistant research engineer with the Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems and the Optical BioSensing Lab at Texas A&M University. Her research interest is in developing point-of-care technologies, particularly within low resource settings. Her doctoral research invloved the design of a fully implantable continuous glucose monitoring biosensor. Her current research efforts focus on investigating the use of fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy coupled with various nanoparticle assays for the design of lab-on-a-chip biosensors.

Masoud Negahdary currently serves as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA. He has been recognized among the top 2% of researchers globally for two consecutive years (2022-2023). Previously, he held the position of postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Chemistry, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, from 2021 to December 2023, where he was honored as the best postdoctoral researcher at USP. Masoud earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Biochemistry from Yazd University of Medical Sciences, Iran, spanning from 2013 to 2018, during which he was distinguished as the best Ph.D. student at the university for one year. His Ph.D thesis, along with other (first postdoc) significant contributions in nanomaterial-based biosensing platforms, was conducted at the Nanomedicine and Nanobiology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran, from 2015 to 2019. His research backgrounds encompass mainly aptamer-based biosensors, surface chemistry, nanomaterials, and nanomedicine.

Sayantan is a postdoctoral researcher who joined the lab in December 2022. His research mainly focuses on nucleic acid engineering-based biomarker detection for cardiovascular disease. Another area of his research focuses on employing non enzymatic isothermal amplification with surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for multiplex detection of disease biomarkers in resource constrained settings.