Research
Research areas
Ten active programs spanning wearables, validation platforms, neural interfaces and biochemical sensing. Filter by where the work is headed.

Wrist-Based Wearable Platform for Continuous Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring
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Noninvasive Force Mapping Glove for Quantifying Astronaut Hand Biomechanics During Extravehicular Activity
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Noninvasive Multimodal Biosensing Armband for Predictive Health Monitoring and Translational Wearable Development
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Integrated Multimodal Chest Patch for Continuous Cardiovascular and Hemodynamic Monitoring
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Advanced Modular Phantom Platform for Noninvasive Wearable and Medical Device Validation
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Neural Interface Engineering and Validation Platforms
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Soft Wearable Gait Monitoring Systems
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AI-Enabled Ultra-Sensitive Cardiac Biomarker Detection Platform
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Next-Generation Non-Enzymatic Continuous Glucose Monitoring
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Multiplexed AI-Enabled Detection Platform for Early Identification of Gestational Diabetes
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Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) towards Point of Care
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Recent work from the lab.
A sample of recent peer-reviewed papers spanning cuffless blood pressure, multimodal wearables, nucleic acid and electrochemical biosensing, and machine learning.
- 2026High sensitivity cardiac troponin I detection via MP-locked aptamer and multimeric DNAzyme-coupled hyperbranched hybridization chain reactionTripathy S, et al., Coté GL. Small 22(20)Biomarkers
- 2026Hierarchical 3D-printed electrochemical SERS platform integrated with molecular imprinting for levetiracetam monitoringNegahdary M, et al., Horner R, McMurray JP. Biosensors and BioelectronicsElectrochemical
- 2025A novel wearable device for continuous blood pressure monitoring utilizing strain gauge technologyMcMurray JP, DeVries A, Frazee K, Sizemore B, Branan KL, Jennings R, et al. Biosensors 15(7), 413Cuffless BP
- 2025Predicting blood pressure without a cuff using a unique multi-modal wearable device and machine learning algorithmHsiao CT, Hong S, Branan KL, McMurray J, Coté GL. Computers in Biology and Medicine 192, 110357Cuffless BP
- 2025A locked aptamer-magnetic nanoparticle assay for cardiac troponin I classification to support myocardial infarction diagnosis in resource-limited environmentsTripathy S, et al. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 286, 117590Point-of-care
- 2025Robust prediction of cardiorespiratory signals from a multimodal physiological system on the upper armBranan KL, Kurian R, McMurray JP, et al. Biosensors 15(8), 493Wearables
- 2025Machine learning-based VO2 estimation using a wearable multiwavelength photoplethysmography deviceHsiao CT, Tong C, Coté GL. Biosensors 15(4), 208Machine learning
- 2024Contact pressure-guided wearable dual-channel bioimpedance device for continuous hemodynamic monitoringNamkoong M, McMurray J, Branan K, et al. Advanced Materials Technologies 9(3), 2301407Bioimpedance
- 2021Sources of inaccuracy in photoplethysmography for continuous cardiovascular monitoringFine J, Branan KL, Rodriguez AJ, et al. Biosensors 11(4), 126Highly cited
