Elsevier Advanced Biosensors for Health Care Applications

Advanced Biosensors for Health Care Applications highlights the different types of prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers associated with cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, brain and retinal diseases, cardiovascular diseases, bacterial infections, and other electrochemical biosensor techniques used for the early detection of specific diseases. As recent developments on the nanoscale for biomedical diagnosis devices continues to grow and expand into new markets, this book describes the need for novel strategies for developing a new class of assay systems that operate in real-time, also discussing the selection of sensor components and the operational parameters for each efficient sensing platform. Recent studies reported that there are several diagnostic methods available, but the major issue is the sensitivity and selectivity of these approaches. Biosensors are shown to be superior tools due to their proven high sensitivity and selectivity. Therefore, this book explores the potential of nano-multidisciplinary science to design and develop smart sensing technology using micro-nano electrodes, novel sensing materials, integration with MEMS, miniaturized transduction systems, novel sensing strategy i.e., FET, CMOS, System-on-a-Chip (SoC), Diagnostic-on-a-Chip (DoC), and Lab-on-a-chip (LOC), for diagnostics and personalized health care monitoring. Review Presents new ideas to motivate development of the next generation of sensing materials for health care monitoring and diagnostic systems About the Author Dr. Inamuddin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), India. He obtained his Masters of Science degree in Organic Chemistry from Chaudhary Charan Singh (CCS) University, Meerut, India, in 2002. He received his Masters and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Applied Chemistry from AMU in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He has extensive research experience in Analytical Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Electrochemistry and, more specifically, Renewable Energy and the Environment. He has published 72 research articles in international journals, and eight book chapters. He has also published five edited books with Springer, Nova Science Publishers, CRC Press and Trans Tech Publications. He is an active member of various editorial boards of international journals. Raju Khan is a Senior Scientist & Group Leader at Analytical Chemistry Group, CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology, Jorhat, Assam, Govt. of India. He received his MSc degree in Inorganic Chemistry and PhD in Physical Chemistry from Jamia Millia Islamia, Central University, New Delhi, India, 2002 & 2005, respectively. Thereafter, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the “Sensor Research laboratory Department of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, in the year 2005-06 and also worked as a Fast Track Young Scientist at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi Govt. of India. Dr Khan was involved in synthesize of novel materials to fabricate electrochemical biosensor to detect target disease risk biomarker for health care monitoring. Dr Khan is also engaged other external project funding National & International collaborative project, Indo-Czech Republic & Indo-Russia. After successful completion of awarded tenure, Dr. Khan joined as Scientist at Analytical Chemistry Division, CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST), a research laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India and he is also promoted and currently working as a Senior Scientist. He was awarded the BOYSCAST fellowship to work work as a visiting scientist for one year at University of the Texas at Sanantonio, USA. Since then, Dr. Khan has served with more than 10 years R&D and teaching experience, producing high quality research, mentoring students, and supporting analytical division as outsource facility. Ali Mohammad is Emeritu