Sensors sin Medicine 2019

Keynote 2 15 Low cost mobile-phone enabled DNA-based diagnostic platforms – applications for infectious disease detection in rural communities in Africa Prof. Jonathan Cooper FREng FRSE Wolfson Chair of Bioengineering, University of Glasgow Jon Cooper holds TheWolfson Chair in Biomedical Engineering and is Vice Principal, leading the University’s strategy in Knowledge Exchange and Innovation. He is an EPSRC Research Fellow and holds a European Research Council Advanced Programme Grant. His major research interests are in medical diagnostics, and he has a track record of spin-out and translation of devices into industry and practice. In one strand of work, rapid, zero-cost “origami paper” diagnostics are being trialled in rural Uganda as species-specific DNA sensors to identify the cause of infectious disease and inform treatment “in the field”. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK’s national academy of engineering) as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland’s national academy of arts, humanities and sciences).