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Let’s shape the future - University of Antwerp
The University of Antwerp is a dynamic, forward-thinking, European university. We offer an innovative academic education to more than 20000 students, conduct pioneering scientific research and play an important service-providing role in society. We are one of the largest, most international and most innovative employers in the region. With more than 6000 employees from 100 different countries, we are helping to build tomorrow's world every day. Through top scientific research, we push back boundaries and set a course for the future – a future that you can help to shape.
A-PECS at the Department of Bioscience Engineering in the Faculty of Science is looking for a full-time (100%) doctoral scholarship holder in the field of signal enhancement strategies for photoelectrochemical sensors for nucleic acid-based sequences.
The overall goal of this PhD is the development of strategies to enhance the sensitivity of novel photoelectrochemical biosensors that will pave the way to the construction of affordable, robust, and user-friendly platforms for healthcare applications, i.e. cancer diagnosis and infectious disease diagnostics. Due to the integration of biorecognition elements (e.g. DNA/RNA), electrochemical biosensors are ideally suited for the selective determination of a wide variety of clinically relevant targets. The detection of the biomarkers of interest will be achieved by taking advantage of the cost-effectiveness and sensitive detection provided by photoelectrochemical strategies. Singal enhancement strategies such as hybridization chain reaction and loop-mediated isothermal amplification will be explored. This PhD will contribute to the efforts of getting insight into yet unexplored biosensing and signal amplification strategies.
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