Handbook of Immunoassay Technologies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128117621 ISBN 13: 9780128117620

Publisher: Academic Press, 2018

Synopsis

Handbook of Immunoassay Technologies: Approaches, Performances, and Applications unravels the role of immunoassays in the biochemical sciences. During the last four decades, a wide range of immunoassays has been developed, ranging from the conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, to the smartphone-based point-of-care formats. The advances in rapid biochemical procedures, novel biosensing schemes, fully integrated lab-on-a-chip platforms, prolonged biomolecular storage strategies, device miniaturization and interfacing, and emerging smart system technologies equipped with personalized mobile healthcare tools are paving the way to next-generation immunoassays, and are all discussed in this comprehensive text.

Immunoassays play a prominent role in clinical diagnostics as they are the eyes of healthcare professionals, helping them make informed clinical decisions via confirmed disease diagnosis, and thus enabling favorable health outcomes. The faster and reliable diagnosis of infections will further control their spread to uninfected persons. Similarly, immunoassays play a prominent role in veterinary diagnostics, food analysis, environmental monitoring, defense and security, and other bioanalytical settings. Therefore, they enable the detection of a plethora of analytes, which includes disease biomarkers, pathogens, drug impurities, environmental contaminants, allergens, food adulterants, drugs of abuse and various biomolecules.

• Provides a valuable increase of understanding of cellular and biomedical functions
• Gives the most updated resource in the field of immunoassays, providing the comprehensive details of various types of immunoassays that need to be performed in healthcare, and in industrial, environmental and other biochemical settings
• Discusses all multifarious aspects of immunoassays
• Describes the immunoassay formats, along with their principle of operation, characteristics, pros and cons, and potential biochemical and bioanalytical applications
• Provides extensive knowledge and guided insights as detailed by experienced, renowned experts and key opinion makers in the field of immunoassays

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Sandeep K. Vashist is the Senior Discovery and R&D Processes Manager at Immunodiagnostic Systems GmbH, Germany. He worked as the Bioanalytical Scientist at Bristol-Myers Squibb Ireland; Team Leader for point-of-care (POC) diabetic monitoring at National University of Singapore; Head of Immunodiagnostics at Hahn-Schickard, Germany; Senior Scientist in immunoassays and POC testing at Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, Germany; Chief Scientific Officer at Vallomed Health Care GmbH, Germany; and, Founder and Director of Vallomed Smart Health Solutions. His research outputs include many successful technology transfers; several immunoassays, IVD and POC technologies; over 250 high impact factor journal publications, conference publications, patents, books, and book chapters. He has been constantly rewarded for scientific research excellence and innovation. Further, he is the invited Editor for many reputed journals; an expert/reviewer/advisor for several international funding agencies; and, a Technology consultant to several companies in the fields of immunoassays, in vitro diagnostics, POC technologies, mobile healthcare, bioanalytical sciences, and diabetic monitoring and management.

Prof John H.T. Luong is the Walton Fellow and Professor associated with the School of Chemistry of University College Cork, Ireland. He was the Professor and Division Head of Biomedical Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was also a distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Zhengzhou (China), a Visiting Professor at Nanocore, National University of Singapore, Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan-Israel), and Institut d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, Université de Lille. He has received several awards for his excellent contribution in research, innovation and technology transfer. He is on the Editorial Board of several Journals and the Chief Editor of Frontiers in Biotechnology and Bioengineering- Nanobiotechnology. He has 10 patents and 330 publications with over 17,000 citations with an h-index of 71. He is the expert/reviewer/advisor/consultant for many international funding agencies and enterprises.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0128117621
• ISBN 13: 9780128117620
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Vashist PhD Sandeep K., Luong John H.T.