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YEONHO CHOI
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Brisbane, Australia. Education. B.Sc. (Hons) first Class (University Medal) (1987), The University of Sydney, Australia; and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (1992), The University of Melbourne, Australia. Nonscientific Interests. Waveski surfing, bike riding and recalcitrant conversation. My research is dedicated toward developing innovative nanodiagnostics to help transform the healthcare system toward early detection and personalized treatment of diseases. I have broad and eclectic interests at the interface of chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology and medicine. (Read Trau’s article: DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b01011.)
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Current Position. Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Bioconvergence Engineering, Korea University, South Korea. Education. B.S. (1998) and M.S. (2000) in Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea; and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (2009), and Postdoctoral Research Associate with Prof Luke P. Lee (2009−2010), University of California Berkeley, CA. Nonscientific Interests. Swimming, reading, and listening to music. My research interests include plasmonic sensors of biomolecules such as exosomes, viruses, proteins, and volatile organic compounds. We use advanced nanotechnologies to develop diagnostic devices for cancer and infectious diseases that can be directly used in biomedical research and clinics. (Read Choi’s article; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b01047.)
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Current Position. Professor, College of Light Industry, Textile and Food Engineering, and Healthy Food Evaluation Research Center, Sichuan University, China. Education. B.S. in Chemistry (2012), Central South University; and Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry (2017, Advisor: Prof. Jinghong Li), Tsinghua University, China. Nonscientific Interests. Music and traveling. My research focuses on exploiting structural, dynamic DNA nanotechnology, nucleic acid amplification techniques, and nanomaterials to build single-cell analysis methods and biosensors. I am particularly interested in engineering nucleic acid molecules and nanomaterials that allow construction of (1) highly specific DNA/RNA probes, (2) in situ amplification, and (3) spatial or spectral encoding, enabling highly precise multiplex in vitro detection and in situ imaging, and applying them for cancer diagnosis, food safety, and pathogenic microorganism analysis. (Read Deng’s article; DOI: 10.1021/ acssensors.8b01122.)
MATT TRAU
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Current Position. Professor of Chemistry and Director, the Centre for Personalised Nanomedicine, The University of Queensland; and Senior Group Leader and cofounder, the © 2018 American Chemical Society
RUIJIE DENG
Received: December 9, 2018 Published: December 28, 2018 2473
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b01560 ACS Sens. 2018, 3, 2473−2474
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Introducing Our Authors
LIN XU
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Current Position. Ph.D. candidate (Advisor: Prof. Peiwu Li), Oil Crops Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China. Education. B.E. in Food Science (2012), Shandong Agricultural University, China. Nonscientific Interests. Ping-pong, reading, calligraphy, movies, and hiking. Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites of fungi. My graduate research has focused on the detection of the mycotoxins, including the establishment of the immunoassay and the application of binding-induced DNA assembly in mycotoxin determination. In our paper in this issue, we describe a new fluorescence turn-on sensor for homogeneous detection of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), a potent low molecular weight mycotoxin. The assay can be readily adapted for the detection of other small molecules by altering appropriate antibodies and show promising potentials for on-site detection of AFB1. (Read Xu’s article; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b00975.)
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DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.8b01560 ACS Sens. 2018, 3, 2473−2474
