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 Resolved Spectroscopy probe for In-line Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Drying
- Contributor
- 21/3/2023
- Seminar
- Invited speaker
- 11/2022
- SciX 2022
- Invited speaker
- 10/2022
- SciX 2022
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 10/2022
- Symposium
- Invited speaker
- 9/2022
- Seminar
- Invited speaker
- 9/2022
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Projects
- 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
- Multiscale Metrology Suite for Next-generation Healthcare Technologies (EPSRC Strategic Equipment)
- Rattray, Zahra (Principal Investigator) Bruns, Nico (Co-investigator) Faulds, Karen (Co-investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator) Halbert, Gavin (Co-investigator) Hoskins, Clare (Co-investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Perrie, Yvonne (Co-investigator) Reid, Stuart (Co-investigator) Seib, Philipp (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
- MICA: Point-of-care assessment of drug-induced liver injury (POC-DILI)
- Graham, Duncan (Principal Investigator) Faulds, Karen (Co-investigator) Sloan-Dennison, Sian (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2024
- Plasmonic Photothermal Heating of Gold Nanoparticles Increases Raman Scattering
- Graham, Duncan (Principal Investigator) Faulds, Karen (Co-investigator) Tuttle, Tell (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
- GlasBioPhys: An integrated facility for the analysis of biomolecular interactions (19ALERT Mid-range equipment initiative)
- Burley, Glenn (Principal Investigator) Chamberlain, Luke (Co-investigator) Faulds, Karen (Co-investigator) Hoskisson, Paul (Co-investigator)
- 11-Jan-2020 - 09-Jan-2021
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