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COVID-19 Spike Protein Detection Using Organic Dual-Gate Transistors

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • start year

    2020

  • Funder

    Volkswagen Stiftung

  • Principal Investigator

    Dr and Prof Dr Ulrike Kraft, Paul Blom

  • Research Location

    Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Pathogen: natural history, transmission and diagnostics

  • Research Subcategory

    Diagnostics

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

Frequent, vast, easy accessible, point of care testing is crucial to contain the spreading of the highly infectious COVID-19 virus. This project proposes the development of COVID-19 biosensors based on organic dual-gate transistors for fast detection with high sensitivity.