Publications

Label-free visualisation of the antifungal polyene drug, nystatin in biological membranes using Raman microscopy

Tipping William J, Bilal Zainab, Wells Robert C, Brown Jason L, Graham Duncan, Faulds Karen

Analytical Chemistry (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5c07342

Visualisation of a Brutons tyrosine kinase inhibitor using fluorescence and Raman microscopy

Merchant Andrew S, Tipping William J, Graham Duncan, Faulds Karen

Analytical Chemistry (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5c04965

Development of a surface enhanced Raman scattering lateral flow immunoassay with prolonged reproducibility and stability over time

Sloan-Dennison Sian, Clark Benjamin, Scullion Kathleen M, Smillie Fiona, Laing Stacey, Fineran Paul, Mair Joanne, Rathmell Cicely, Bingemann Dieter, Faircloth Jonathan, Creasey David, Shand Neil, Weir Christopher J, Dear James W, Graham Duncan, Faulds (She/Her) Karen

Analyst (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1039/D6AN00053C

A SERRS-based lateral flow assay for sensitive detection of mitochondrial DNA in endometriosis screening

Rey Gomez Laura M, Alom Kazi Morshed, Nadalini Audrey, Hnit Su Su Thae, Clark Benjamin, Lyu Nana, Hirani Rena, Sloan-Dennison Sian, Laing Stacey, Rathmell Cicely, Creasey David, Bingemann Dieter, Faircloth Jonathan, Shand Neil, Graham Duncan, Faulds Karen, Wang Yuling

ACS Sensors Vol 11, pp. 2707–2720 (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.5c04674

A chemical probe for prostate-specific membrane antigen for real-time Raman imaging of prostate cancer cells

Tipping William J, Powell Daniel J, Wells Robert C, Grant Emma K, Tomkinson Nicholas CO, Faulds Karen, Graham Duncan

ACS Sensors (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.5c03746

Under the lens : using Raman spectroscopy as a unique system in biofilm analyses

Bilal Zainab, Tipping William, Brown Jason L, Faulds Karen

Critical Reviews in Microbiology Vol 52, pp. 283-301 (2026)

https://doi.org/10.1080/1040841x.2025.2555937

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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

Enhancing Pharmaceutical Drying Monitoring Through Depth-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy: A novel Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) probe for in-line process monitoring

Contributor

3/3/2026

Spatially resolved Raman spectroscopy for Pharmaceutical Drying process – a development of an advanced PAT tool for process sustainability and efficiency

Contributor

2/3/2026

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

Invited speaker

10/2022

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Projects

Deep Raman Imaging of Bacterial Biofilms (Dstl Contribution to Studentship)

Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator)

28-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2029

Development of SERS-based Sensors for Oligonucleotide Drug Investigation

Graham, Duncan (Principal Investigator) Faulds, Karen (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2029

UDLA 2527 University of Strathclyde | Clark, Ross

Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator) Clark, Ross (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029

UDLA 2527 University of Strathclyde | Armstrong, Becca

Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator) Graham, Duncan (Co-investigator) Armstrong, Becca (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029

UDLA 2527 University of Strathclyde | Hendrie, Grant

Laing, Stacey (Principal Investigator) Faulds, Karen (Co-investigator) Hendrie, Grant (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029

Fraunhofer access to the Raman facility

Faulds, Karen (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026

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