SEMI112 Perspectives on Biosense Applications

Course Description 

The healthcare industry has transformed over the past twenty-five years due to the co-development of diagnostics along with state-of-the-art therapeutics and treatments; notably, this has led to the field of companion diagnostics. The best example of this is the prescribed use of insulin-based glucose levels which are monitored via test strips or the continuous glucose monitoring. The future goal of medicine is to have truly personalized treatment protocols based on an individual's biometers, physiology, and exposure. 

However, this goal required further identification and quantitation of biomarkers and health exposures, both biological and chemical, both at the point-of-care as well as in real-time. Therefore, technologies are needed that can miniaturize current diagnostics to make them inexpensive, simple to use, and ideally wearable. 

However, where and what to sense remains a critical question to solve, as each biofluid, including blood, sweat, saliva, tears, breath, and exhaled breath condensate contains a different profile of biomarkers. Additionally, biomarkers have vastly different physiochemical properties and abundances, which present different challenges as well as require a range of sensing modalities. Therefore, this course will overview the "What, Where, and How of Sensing to Meet Current and Future MedTech Needs". At the end of the course, a perspective of where these technologies can impact the future of health outcomes will be presented as well as key considerations for future technologies to gain commercial acceptance. 

Course Objectives  

• Recognize that biosensor applications can meet current and future MedTech needs.
• Explain where biosensor applications can impact the future of health outcomes.
• Discuss how biosensor applications work and how they can improve healthcare solutions. 

Course Duration

2 hr. 40 minutes

Target Audience 

Managers, supervisors, engineers, technicians, MedTech professionals, anyone working with biosensor applications, and/or FlexTech community members  

Requisite Knowledge 

None