Kaiyu Fu
Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Materials Science and Engineering
- Research description: Integration of nanotechnology, advanced materials, and bioanalytical techniques with automated data acquisition and processing to develop biomedical devices that enable point-of-care diagnostics and improve chronic disease management.
- Relevant research topics: Cancer Biology, Chemical Biology & Pharmacology, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Neuroscience.
- The Fu lab overlaps three disciplines: electrochemistry, nanoscience, and synthetic biology. Several emerging and exciting topics derived from these fields surge upon instrumentation advancement, cutting-edge nanotechnology, and commercial biomedical devices over the past decade. Recently, our research particularly interested in 1) nanoscale electrochemistry, which paves the way to the development of ultrasensitive analytical platforms reaching a single-entity detection level; 2) electrochemical biosensors for point-of-care diagnostics and chronic disease management; and 3) nanobiotechnology, e.g., DNA nanotechnology and direction evolution of nucleic acids, aiming to manipulate the molecular recognition with unprecedented precision and efficiency.