Professor Karen Faulds
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Prize And Awards
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Analytical Division Mid-Career Award
- Recipient
- 2021
- Robert Kellner Lecture Award
- Recipient
- 2021
- Named on the Top 60 Scientists from Around the World Power List by The Analytical Scientist
- Recipient
- 10/2020
- Charles Mann Award
- Recipient
- 10/2019
- Fleischmann Lecture- RSC Electrochemistry Group
- Recipient
- 8/2019
- Named as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Analytical Scientists
- Recipient
- 2019
Publications
- Cytokeratin-18 is a sensitive biomarker of alanine transaminase increase in a placebo-controlled, randomized, crossover trial of therapeutic paracetamol dosing (PATH-BP biomarker substudy)
- Scullion Kathleen M, MacIntyre Iain M, Sloan-Dennison Sian, Clark Benjamin, Fineran Paul, Mair Joanne, Creasey David, Rathmell Cicely, Faulds Karen, Graham Duncan, Webb David J, Dear James W
- Toxicological Sciences (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfae031
- Plasmonic and photothermal properties of silica-capped gold nanoparticle aggregates
- Fergusson Jodie, Wallace Gregory Q, Sloan-Dennison Sian, Carland Ruairí, Shand Neil C, Graham Duncan, Faulds Karen
- Journal of Physical Chemistry C Vol 127, pp. 24475-24486 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c07536
- Spectral fingerprinting of cellular lipid droplets using stimulated Raman scattering microscopy and chemometric analysis
- Rensonnet Aurélie, Tipping William J, Malherbe Cedric, Faulds Karen, Eppe Gauthier, Graham Duncan
- Analyst Vol 149, pp. 553-562 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D3AN01684F
- Expanding the range of bioorthogonal tags for multiplex stimulated Raman scattering microscopy
- Murphy Neville, Tipping William J, Braddick Henry J, Wilson Liam T, Tomkinson Nicholas CO, Faulds Karen, Graham Duncan, Farràs Pau
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol 62 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202311530
- Optoplasmonic effects in highly curved surfaces for catalysis, photothermal heating, and SERS
- Masson Jean-Francois, Wallace Gregory Q, Asselin Jérémie, Ten Andrey, Hojjat Jodaylami Maryam, Faulds Karen, Graham Duncan, Biggins John S, Ringe Emilie
- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Vol 15, pp. 46181–46194 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c07880
- Light-up split aptamers : binding thermodynamics and kinetics for sensing
- Zhao Yichen, Patel Nikesh, Sun Peihuan, Faulds Karen, Graham Duncan, Liu Juewen
- Analyst Vol 148, pp. 5612-5618 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D3AN01368E
Research Interests
Our research focuses on using surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) to create new approaches to bioanalysis for use in the life and clinical sciences. SERS is a spectroscopic technique that offers significant advantages over other established techniques such as fluorescence and our research has focused on highlighting the advantages, creating new examples of increased capability in life science applications and interacting with end users to shape future step changes in research. Our research centres around using the inherent sensitivity of SERS for the detection of target DNA or proteins using signal amplification methods to enhance the signal rather than using target amplification methods such as PCR. Our work has focussed on exploiting the sensitivity of SERS for quantitative analysis of biomolecules as well as exploiting one of the key advantages of SERS, the ability to analyse multiple analytes in one sample. This allows more information to be gained per analysis as well as giving information about complex systems that are intrinsically difficult to measure.
Professional Activities
- Development of a Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy Probe for Monitoring Pharmaceutical Drying
- Contributor
- 25/1/2024
- Development of a Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy probe for In-line Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Drying
- Contributor
- 21/3/2023
- Seminar
- Invited speaker
- 11/2022
- SciX 2022
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 10/2022
- SciX 2022
- Invited speaker
- 10/2022
- Seminar
- Invited speaker
- 9/2022
Projects
- Rapid Bacterial Testing
- Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator)
- 05-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Merchant, Andrew
- Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator) Merchant, Andrew (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- New Capability for Bacterial Testing in the Food Production Environment
- Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator) May, Hayleigh (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2024
- Strathclyde CDT: Healthcare Nanotechnologies
- Perrie, Yvonne (Principal Investigator) Rattray, Zahra (Principal Investigator) Hoskins, Clare (Principal Investigator) Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Gale, Cameron
- Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator) Gale, Cameron (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- EPSRC IAA: PROSPECTIVE SPINOUT: Rapid Bacterial Testing (RBT)
- Faulds, Karen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Karen
Faulds
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Email: karen.faulds@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2507