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Table of contents
Editorial 4
Cancer Diagnostics Net-work
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Sensors in Medicine 2016
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SiM16 HackaThon 9
Sensor People in the News
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Coming S100 Events 11
Sensors in Food and Agriculture 2016
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Coming Events 15
Agriculture 17
Environment 18
Healthcare 19
Technology 22
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From the Editor
As forecast last month, November has been, and is, an exception-ally busy month for Sensor100. Sensors in Medicine 2016 went off in fine style at our new venue and despite the lack of the promised pizza, everyone came away if not wiser then certainly better in-formed.
Now we are gearing up for Sensors in Food and Agriculture in Cam-bridge (UK) on the 29-30 November. Still time to register if you haven’t done so yet - see conference details inside.
People have asked about our plans for 2017, which is good to hear. They are not exacly a blank canvas, but some details need to be filled in before we go public. Watch this space.
Finally, a very Happy Thanksgiving to readers on the far side of the Atlantic.
Kind regards
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Are you developing biosensors for cancer diagnosis?
Do you think early diagnosis needs more recognition?
Would it help to know who else is working on this?
Do we need better early stage diagnostic tools?
Can improved diagnosis enhance cancer therapy?
If you identify with any or all of these questions, join the Cancer Diagnosis Network, now being formed as one outcome from Sensor100’s Workshop “Biosensors for Cancer Diagnosis” held in July 2016.
What will the Network do?
It will evolve as the membership grows, but to start: Quarterly newsletter
One or two conferences a year, with reduced fees for members
Help raise funds for an Innovation Challenge Platform to identify the most promising early stage diagnostic tools
One in two of us will be diagnosed with cancer. Most diagnoses are made at the later stages when the chance of a cure is significantly lower, CRUK
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How to Join The Network?On-line membership not yet active.Register your interest HERE
Annual Fees
Individuals & Pre-revenue companies £100Charities, SMEs, & universities £250Companies £1000
Note: 20% VAT added to all Membership fees
“We spend most of our money in treating, rather than investing in diagnostics to know what we’re treating”
Professor Lord Ara Darzi, Imperial College London Kings Fund report: The Future is Now (2015)
Development of low cost rapid diagnostic tools for early stage cancer must be the greatest humanitarian challenge facing biosensor technology - and one which has the potential for the greatest commercial return, sig-nificantly larger than the market for glucose sensors. #cancerdiagnostics
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It is said that one can always remember where one was when historic events took place: JFK shooting (1963); NYC blackout (1977); Princess Diana’s death (1997) or the last Stock Market crash (2008). December 9th 2016 was the day the world woke up to find that the USA had elected Donald Trump as President. It was also - by co-in-cidence - the opening day of the 4th annual Sensors in Medicine conference; both no doubt truly memorable occasions.
SiM16 opened with a Keynote talk from Dr. Yuksel Temiz from IBM Research on “High-precision microfluidics for portable immunodiagnostics”; it closed with Dr. Michael Pringle from Clinical Diagnostics Solutions on “Wearable and Smartphone Technolo-gies: What can they tell you about your health?” In between, we listened to a plethora of outstanding presentations covering most aspects of the applications of sensors in medicine and healthcare.
It is inappropriate to single out particular speakers, but a clear theme which emerged was the growing use of sensors in infectious disease diagnosis, ably covered by Drs. Till Bachmann and Tim Rawson. It is a reasonable bet that this application area will grow, and may dwarf glucose sensors in market size. It is always interesting to observe trends which emerge in this conference series.
As always at Sensor100 conference, everyone seemed to have a good time. What hap-pened to the promised pizza at the first night reception? The prosecco was there in abundance, but for reasons best known to itself the hotel supplied alternative Italian style food - and very good it was too.
We will put together a Post-conference summary presentation in December, so watch this space.
When and where will Sensors in Medicine 2017 take place? Not decided yet!
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Sensors in Medicine 2016HackaThonThe ChallengeWorking as a team, devise a innovative sensor based solution to the problem of antibiotic microbial resistance (AMR); present your solution at the end of the day.
The Winning PresentationRapid paper-based screening of antibiotic resistances
Imperial CollegeDepartment of BioengineeringDr. Sylvain Ladame’s Group
The Winning Team(l to r)
Suraj P. Guruprasad | Jason Chan Dana Al Sulaiman | Philip Gillespie
Isobel Steer
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The award was given for the development of cutting-edge industrial sensors to both monitor the impact of climate change, specifically in the oceans and opti-mise new fuels from waste emissions to combat it.
Biography
Nathan was formerly Programme Manager and Principal Research Scientist at Schlumberger Gould Research and is now CTO of ANBSensors, CEO of CambEchem and a visiting academic at the University of Hull. Prior to this, he undertook a post-doctoral role at New Mexico State University and completed doctoral training studies with Prof. Richard Compton at Oxford University.
Nathan has authored 128 research papers, leading to an H-index of 38 and has invented numerous patents. Previously he was awarded the Ronald Belcher Lectureship (2002), Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2010) and Young Industrialist of the Year (2014) by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Sensor People in the News will become a regular feature of Sensor100. Please forward announcements to:
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The second annual Sensors in Food and Agriculture conference will bring together thought leaders from academic research,
agriculture and farming, and regulatory agencies
An International Program of SpeakersExhibits | Poster Displays
Panel discussions
See the Full Program29 -30 November 2016
Møller Centre | Cambridge UK
It’s NOT too late
toRegister
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SiFAA 2016 Keynote Speakers
Sensing our way to food for all?Stephen WhalleyChief Strategy OfficerMEMS & Sensors Industry Group, USA
New concepts for lab-on-a-chip systems for pathogen detectionProf. Antje Baeumner Director, Institut für Analytische Chemie, Chemo- und BiosensorikUniversity of Regensburg, DE
Sensing technology for food and agriculture Dr. Philippe MonnoyerBusiness Development ManagerVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, FI
Conversations between the artificial and naturalDr. Helene SteinerPost-doctoral ResearcherMicrosoft Research
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SiFAA16 Exhibitors:
We are delighted that the following exhibitors continue to support Sen-sors in Food and Agriculture:
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A consortium of leading European organisations in the field of chemical sensing has created a real-time, hand-held spectroscopy sensor that will combat unnec-essary food wastage, increase airport safety and help reduce car emissions
The project MIRPHAB (MidInfraRed PHotonics devices fABrication for chemical sensing and spectroscopic applications) has unveiled a chemical sensor capable of superior detection capabilities and unambiguous identification. The device has many potentially exciting capabilities, such as the early detection of diseases, scanning for bacteria in fridges or even detecting the presence of alcohol from afar. Harnessing new photonics technology, the device uses spectroscopic sen-sors that read the unique wavelengths given off when liquids or gasses interact with light.
Director of Technology and Innovation, at the European Photonics Industry Con-sortium (EPIC), Jose Pozo, says: “Spectroscopic sensing in the Mid-IR wavelength band is a powerful analytical tool. Our sensors are extremely versatile and can be modified so that they can be used many different arenas. And good news for those who are concerned about the unnecessary wastage of food because our chemical sensors are being employed in the detection of bacteria in fridges so you can be absolutely sure what you had prepared to eat was not past its best.”
LaboratoryNews 11 November
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t Time - The 25 Best Inven�ons of 2016A Personal Air Purifier
No matter where you live and work, you’re breathing in chemicals and pollutants, some more dangerous than others. And while changing that norm will take years, if not decades, of policy work, there are interim solutions. Among them: Wynd, a portable air filter—roughly the size of a water bottle—that creates a clean-climate bubble by sucking up
pollutants in your immediate vicinity, including ones that can contribute to cancer and heart disease. “What we breathe matters,” says Ray Yu, creator of Wynd, which raised more than $600,000 on Kickstarter and should be com-mercially available next year. “We want to enable everyone to enjoy a healthy air environment, no matter where they live or travel.”Read more...
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The Artificial PancreasIn order for people with diabetes to stay healthy, they must continually check their blood sugar and adjust it with insulin or snacks. Medtronic aims to render this tedious process obsolete with its MiniMed 670G, a.k.a. the “artificial pancre-
as,” which has been in development for years but was only recently approved by the FDA. (It will be commercially available next year.) Once users attach the iPod-size device to their body, it measures their blood-sugar levels every five minutes, providing more insulin or withholding it as needed. For now, they still need to manually request a dose after they eat. But Medtron-
ic is working on a fully automated version, which Fran Kaufman, chief medical officer of the company’s diabetes group, says she hopes will help the 1.25 million people living with Type 1 diabetes “spend less time managing their disease and more time enjoying life.”Read more:
Multianalyte Antibiotic Detection on an Electrochemical Microfluidic Platform
Researchers at the University of Freiberg, DE, have developed a microfluidic platform enabling the electrochemical readout of up to eight enzyme-linked assays (ELAs), simultaneously. To demonstrate the applicability of this platform for the surveillance and monitor-ing of antibiotics, they used highly sensitive biomolecular sensor
systems for the simultaneous detection of two commonly employed antibiotic classes tetracycline and streptogramin. Analytical Chemistry July 2016
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Global Medical Biosensors Market 2016A new market research report from Market.Biz presents a new analysis of the major players and future outlook for the global biosensors market. The report studies sales (consumption) of Medical Biosensors in Global market, especially in United States, China, Europe, Japan, focuses on top players in these regions/countries, with sales, price, revenue and market share for each player in these regions. The report costs $4000 for a single user.Market.biz 11 November
Five innovators who see the future of connected insulin delivery in pens, not pumps
MobileHealthNews reports on five companies developing insulin delivery pens as opposed to pumps: Companion Medical (San Diego, CA, USA); Common Sensing (Cambridge MA, USA); Innovation Zed (Dublin IE); Patients Pending (London UK); Emperra (Potsdam DE).
MobileHealthNews 21 October
Google’s smart contact lenses in crisis as partner Novartis abandons plans to trial tech in 2016
Novartis has abandoned a 2016 goal to start test-ing its autofocus contact lens on people, though it said the groundbreaking product it is making with internet giant Google is ‘progressing steadily.’
‘It is too early to say when exactly human clinical trials for these lenses will begin,’ a spokeswoman for the Basel-based drugmaker said in an email.
Reported by Reuters 18 October
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Why your doctor isn’t using molecular methods to diagnose infectious diseases
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has built and recently commercialized a microar-ray that has probes capable of detecting over 12,000 unique microbial species; including all known and sequenced human pathogens. Clearly, modern NextGen Sequencing (NGS) is also capable of accomplishing the same task. There are at least 7 obstacles that all need to
be overcome before we will be able to fully exploit the benefits of precise pathogen diagnostics that are already technically possible:Tom Slezak, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryRead more... October 16
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