Michael Pringle
(Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics) told us what
new diagnostic devices needed to capture the attention of corporate
giants, and related the stories of some which hadn’t.
Guang-Zhong
Yang
(Imperial College) threw out the challenge of developing biosen-
sors for Body Sensor Network research. These presentations can be
viewed
.
And the rest? There were 40+ oral presentations and an astonishing
270 poster presentations. Those that had a clear application focus,
medicine and healthcare received the most attention with environ-
mental and agriculture/food being distant second equals.
Among such largesse of technology, it is quite hard to distinguish
trends or winners or losers. The Conference Scientific Committee
voted the best paper: Optical forward-scattering for label free iden-
tification of bacteria within microcolonies (
Dr Pierre Marcoux
,
CEA, France). Conference delegates voted the best poster: Enhanced
surface-to-bulk sensitivity ratio of waveguide grating biosensor by an-
gular interrogation at short wavelengths (
Florian Kehl
, ETH, Zurich,
Switzerland)
From a
Sensor100
perspective, a few of the presentations described
technology close to commercialisation; without any intended criti-
cism, most did not. The difficulty of moving technology from the lab
to the market place was a recurrent theme, explicitly made by the
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