Nanobio : Projet Nano Biotechnologie Grenoble Isère
Speakers
Prof. Brian MacCraith MSc, PhD, CPhys, FinstP, MRIA
Director, Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (BDI), Dublin City University
Professor of Physics, Dublin City University
Brief Biography
Brian MacCraith received his B.Sc and PhD in physics (Optical Spectroscopy of chromium-doped crystals) at NUI, Galway. He joined the staff of Dublin City University in 1986 and established the Optical Sensors Laboratory there. Since then, he has been prominent in the field of optical chemical sensors and biosensors as well as nanobiophotonics and has published widely in these areas.
In 1997, Prof. MacCraith was a Visiting Scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, working on Optical Array Biosensors at the Centre for Biomolecular Science and Engineering. In October 1999, he became founding Director of the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR; www.ncsr.ie) at DCU. The NCSR has now grown to a scale of 240 researchers. In August 2001, Prof. MacCraith was elected to Fellowship of the Institute of Physics. In 2005, a spin-off company (Gas Sensor Solutions) based on technology developed by Prof. MacCraith won the Liavan Mallin Invent Award for innovation. In October 2005, he was appointed Director of the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (B DI; www.bdi.ie) with funding of €22.5m. The BDI is an Academic-Industrial-Clinical partnership involving over 110 researchers and is focussed on the development of next-generation Point-of-Care diagnostic platforms.
In 2007, Prof MacCraith was elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy. In 2008, he co-chaired Europtrode IX, the major European conference in Optical Chemical Sensors and Biosensors.
Research Interests:
- Nanobiophotonics / Nanomedicine
- Point of care Diagnostics
- Optical chemical sensors and biosensors
- Fluorescence enhancement of multi-analyte biochips
- Metal-enhanced fluorescence: (plasmonics; LSPR)
- High-brightness nanoparticles
- Evanescent wave sensors and planar waveguide sensor platforms
- Oxygen & carbon dioxide sensing
- Sol-gel-derived sensor materials and platforms