KOCHI:
Goldamol S Pallam, Research Scholar, Department of Applied Chemistry, CUSAT has been selected for prestigious Newton Bhabha PhD Placement (2019-2020).
She is a second year research scholar working in the sensor research group of the Department of Applied Chemistry, CUSAT under the guidance of Prof. K. Girish Kumar. The group has Already developed sensors for a wide range of
biomolecules, food additives and pharmaceuticals.
The current research interests of the Sensor group are aptamer based assays, DNA biosensors, immunosensors and nanomaterial based sensors for the detection of proteins and biomarkers. The placement sanctioned to Goldamol, provides a chance to work with Dr. Mark Platt, Senior Faculty, Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University, UK.
She gets a chance to work for a period of four months in an interdisciplinary research group developing sensors and sensing methodologies.
Her project targets the development of biosensors incorporated with nanomaterials for the detection of proteins/
antibiotics using resistive pulse sensing (RPS). This will enable multiplex detection of many disease biomarkers and that too simultaneously. Nanomaterial based biosensors are the most promising candidate for point of care analysis and personalized medicine. During 2016-17 another student, Dr.Ammu Rosin Jose, of the same research group was selected for the Newton Bhabha Placements and she has completed her work on cancer biomarkers in the University of Leeds, UK.
