Professor Karen Faulds
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Prize And Awards
- Robert Kellner Lecture Award
- Recipient
- 2021
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Analytical Division Mid-Career 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
- Ultra-sensitive dual ELONA/SERS-RPA multiplex diagnosis of antimicrobial resistance
- Hassanain Waleed A, Johnson Christopher L, Faulds Karen, Keegan Neil, Graham Duncan
- Analytical Chemistry Vol 96, pp. 12093-12101 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c02165
- Label-free screening of drug-induced liver injury using stimulated Raman scattering microscopy and spectral phasor analysis
- Tipping William J, Wilson Liam T, Tomkinson Nicholas C O, Faulds Karen, Graham Duncan
- Analytical Chemistry Vol 96, pp. 10639-10647 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c01285
- Live chicken egg embryos as an alternative in vivo tumour model for deep surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
- McCabe Samantha M, Gardiner Hannah, Mullen Calum, Wallace Gregory Q, Shand Neil C, Mullen Alexander B, Horan Linda, Graham Duncan, Faulds Karen, Boyd Marie
- Analyst Vol 149, pp. 3513-3517 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d4an00617h
- 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 Vol 199, pp. 203-209 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfae031
- Scalable slot-die coated flexible supercapacitors from upcycled PET face shields
- Reddygunta Kiran Kumar Reddy, Callander Andrew, Šiller Lidija, Faulds Karen, Berlouis Leonard, Ivaturi Aruna
- RSC Advances Vol 14, pp. 12781-12795 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D2RA06809E
- Multiplex detection of the big five carbapenemase genes using solid-phase recombinase polymerase amplification
- Johnson Christopher L, Setterfield Matthew A, Hassanain Waleed A, Wipat Anil, Pocock Matthew, Faulds Karen, Graham Duncan, Keegan Neil
- Analyst Vol 149, pp. 1527-1536 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d3an01747h
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
- Spectral Phasor-based Automated Raman Histopathology and Tissue Analysis (SPARTAN)
- Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2024
- 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
- 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
- Self-assembling silk for cell and drug delivery
- Rattray, Zahra (Principal Investigator) Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) ROAMCHARERN, Napaporn (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Karen
Faulds
Pure and Applied Chemistry
Email: karen.faulds@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2507