1. «Design and Development of Biochemical Capacitors»
Sponsored by G.S.R.T / project PENED 1999
Date
1999-2002
Role
(Post-doctoral researcher)
Budget
20.000 Euros
2. «Development of a Capacitance based Immunodetection Analyzer for the Determination of GMOs in foods»
Sponsored by European Union / QLK3-2001
Objective
Summarizing the scientific/technological objectives of the project, IMAGEMO aims to the development of a direct immunodetection method based on capacitance measurements (Impedance Spectroscopy, IS). This approach deserves to be upgraded from the academic concept to a commercial product or through the activities of this project to a promising prototype, since it bears inherent advantages (no enzyme tracers, coating antigens, labelled antibodies or successive incubation steps are required) in the field of immunoassays that covers a huge area of applications in food, clinical and environmental analysis. Moreover, the analyser to be developed will be easily adapted to new GMOs, as the whole technology that will be developed can be used for any new GMO, provided that the corresponding antibody is available. IMAGEMO will also contribute to the removal of a limiting parameter in the development of techniques for the detection of GMOs, that is the lack of commercially available antibodies (see page B7) with affinity to relevant target proteins. Web: http://users.uoi.gr/imagemo/
3. «Development of Impedimetric Diagnostic tests for the determination of Salmonella in foods»
Sponsored by Ministry of Development / project PAVET NE
Date
2006-2007
Role
Coordinator
Budget
54.000 Euros
4. «Development of Impedimetric Diagnostic tests for the determination of Salmonella in foods»
Sponsored by Ministry of Education / project PYTHAGORAS II
Date
2005-2007
Role
Coordinator
Budget
50.000 Euros
5. «Organic Solar Cells»
Sponsored by G.S.R.T / project PENED 2005
Date
2005-2008
Role
Group Leader
Budget
200.000 Euros
6. «Titanium and Niobium Microelectrode Based-Biosensors»
Sponsored by NATO, collaborative linkage grant
Date
2007-2008
Role
Group leader
Budget
20.000 Euros
Objective
The proposed project includes feasibility studies on the applications of new technology platform in veterinary diagnostics. The discovery of such applications in these exploratory investigations will widen the impact of the project on the world community. A developed biosensor prototype for H7N1 and H7N7 diagnostic can be achieved with an industrial company. Moreover, experiment with H5N1 will be performed in P3 environment in Pasteur Institute.
7. «Development of an Impedimetric Immunosensors for the Determination of Rennet Activity»
Sponsored by Research Committee, University of Ioannina
Date
2008-2010
Role
Coordinator
Budget
6.000 Euros
8. «Development of Screen-printed electrodes for the determination of heavy metals»
Sponsored by Ministry of Education / project HRAKLEITOS II
Date
2010-2013
Role
Coordinator
Budget
35.000 Euros
Objective
The proposed project includes feasibility studies on the applications of new technology platform in veterinary diagnostics. The discovery of such applications in these exploratory investigations will widen the impact of the project on the world community. A developed biosensor prototype for H7N1 and H7N7 diagnostic can be achieved with an industrial company. Moreover, experiment with H5N1 will be performed in P3 environment in Pasteur Institute.
9. «Development of Ultra-Sensitive Electrochemical DNA Biosensors Exploiting Micro- and Nano- Technologies»
Sponsored by G.S.R.T / project “Post Doctoral researchers”
Date
2012-2015
Role
Coordinator (shared project with Prof. A. Economou, University of Athens)
Budget
150.000 Euros
Objective
In this work, recent developments in the field on micro and nano-technology will be exploited for the development of ultra-sensitive electrochemical biosensors for the detection of DNA mutations and/or quantitation of protein markers for disease diagnosis. Microelectronic thin-film technologies, such as sputtering, will be used for the deposition of thin conductive films (e.g. C, Au, Bi, Sn, Pt), which will serve as electrochemical sensors, on the surface of non-conductive support materials (e.g. Si, glass, plastics). Photolithography techniques will be used to define the geometry of the sensors and the fabrication of lab-on-a-chip devices with integrated sputtered electrodes. The devices will be used as voltammetric sensors for the detection and quantitation of DNA and protein analytes. The target analytes will be selectively immobilized on the surface of the electrodes and tagged with suitable probes via bio-affinity interactions. The probes will be labeled with metal nano-particles or quantum dots and the quantity of the labeled probes will be related to the quantity of the immobilized analyte. Then, the surface of the sensor will be treated with suitable reagents for the oxidative release of the bound metal nano-particles or quantum dots as metal cations. Finally, these will be determined with high sensitivity by anodic stripping voltammetry and the current recorded will be proportional to the metal concentration and, therefore, to the initial concentration of the analyte in the sample. The aims of the present proposal are the fabrication of electrodes with microelectronic technologies and the application in the development of biosensors for the ultra-trace detection of DNA mutations and protein analytes labeled with nanomaterials.
10. «Portable diagnostic medical devices and “diagnostic cards” with smartphone-aided operation utilizing novel responsive polymer film-based biosensors and low-cost transducers for point-of-care applications»
Sponsored by the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE
Objective
11. «Development of research infrastructures for the design, production, development of quality characteristics and safety of agrofoods and functional foods (Rl-Agrofoods)»
Sponsored by Greece and the European Union - European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the Operational Program “Competitiveness Entrepreneurship Innovation” (EPAnEK), NSRF 2014-2020
Date
2021-2023
Role
Group Leader
Budget
3.000.000 Euros
12. «Design and development of a sweat-based glucose monitoring graphene nanodevice (closed-loop) with controlled transdermal nanoemulsion release for hypoglycemic drug delivery»
Sponsored by the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, under the call RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE (project code:T2EDK-02171)
Date
2021-2023
Role
Cooperative partner
Budget
23.000 Euros