Our research centre of excellence ‘IDUN’ covers activities in nanosensors and microfabricated devices for oral drug delivery. This allows us to explore the synergy between sensor development and search for new pharmaceutical characterization/delivery tools and materials. I will show examples of recent findings and results within drug/polymer characterization, microdevices for drug delivery [1, 2] and diagnostics. Also, new applications within therapeutic drug monitoring using Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering [3, 4] will be presented as well as centrifugal microfluidics platforms for cell growth [5].

References

1. Tijana Maric et al., Small, 19 (2023) 2206330 
2. Mahdi Ghavami, et al., Journal of Controlled Release, 361 (2023) 40
3. Gohar Soufi et al., Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X, 14 (2023) 100382
4. Yaman Goksel et al., ACS Sensors, 7 (2022) 2358
5. Laura Serioli et al., Lab on a Chip, 23 (2023) 1603

BIO

Anja Boisen is head of section and professor at department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark. Also, she is heading a DNRF and Villum Centre of Excellence named ‘IDUN - Intelligent Drug Delivery and Sensing Using Microcontainers and Nanomechanics’. Her research group focuses on the development and application of nano-sensors and microfabricated systems for oral drug delivery. Anja is cofounder of companies Cantion, Silmeco BluSense Diagnostics and LightNovo. She is, among others, member of the board of the Leo Foundation, the board of Villum Foundation, the Danish Academy of the Technical Sciences, and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. In 2008 she was awarded the largest research prize in Denmark, the Villum Kann Rasmussen award and in 2012 she was awarded the EliteForsk Award from the Danish ministry of Research, Innovation and Higher Education. In 2013 she received the ‘Sapere Aude – top researcher award’ from the Danish Council for Independent Research. Recently, in 2020 she was awarded the Order of Dannebrog by her Majesty the Queen of Denmark. In 2021 she was elected fellow of the electrochemical society (ECS) and became MNE 2021 fellow at the annual international conference on Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE). In 2022 she received the ECS outstanding Achievement Award. She has received two ERC advanced grants (2013 & 2022) and three ERC POC grants.