Point–of–Care Biosensors for Infectious Diseases

Sushma Dave received her academic degrees in Analytical Chemistry, Electrochemistry, and Environmental Chemistry from Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur (India). Since 1999, she has been teaching chemistry to students of engineering and basic sciences and is currently an Associate Professor at the Jodhpur Institute of Engineering & Technology. Her areas of interest are Electrochemistry, Biosensors Environmental science, Nanotechnology, and Soil Biochemistry. She has published more than 50 scientific articles, several book chapters and has edited several books. Jayashankar Das holds a PhD in Biotechnology and worked as a scientist for the government of India at IBSD. He has served as director for the Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission and the Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre. In addition to being a Senior Advisor to OSPF-NIAS, IISc Bangalore, he is currently serving as Director for SOA University. His research is focused on societal challenges arising from the development of molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases, vaccines for emerging diseases, miRNA based targeted therapeutics, and Artificial Intelligence in healthcare applications.