Nano-Microsystems for Life Sciences

Healthcare of tomorrow will change dramatically driven by global processes, such as technological advances and the digital revolution. One of the exciting possibilities to establish new patient-care standards relies on the new ultrasensitive diagnostics seamlessly integrated into gadgets, such as point-of-care system, or clinically relevant medical tools to provide maximally personalized assistance and treatment. Our mission is the development of smart miniaturized biosensing devices and systems using nanoscale materials as building blocks and advanced microfluidics to find new routes and parameters that can be employed for the characterization of biomolecules and cells as well as biochemical reactions or processes.

Our interdisciplinary research group is initiated and performed at two institutes: the Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research and the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research.

Involved departments and internal cooperations:

• Radioimmunology (FWPI)
• Intelligent Materials and Devices (FWID)
• Nanoelectronics (FWIO)

Projects and support

• ERC Consolidator grant ‘ImmunoChip’
• DFG project: Lab-on-chip systems for multiplexed and multiparametric biochemical assays
• DFG SPP 1726 project: Artificial nanomachines in external potentials
• Else-Kröner-Fresenius Center for Digital Health project: Smart catheters for in-vivo monitoring of blood parameters
• Our group is supported by the High Potential Program at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf especially by the Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research and the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research
• DFGGRK 2767: Supracolloidal Structures: From Materials to Optical and Electronic Devices