The research efforts of this laboratory are directed towards the development of indigenous point-of-care diagnostic devices for real-time quantification of biomarkers of different disease states. The highlight of these studies will be the use of a mobile phone camera as a detector in the Surface Plasmon-Coupled Emission platform.
These ‘Make in India’ mobile health technologies will aid in diagnosis and management of acute myocardial infarction, perinatal depression and vector borne diseases such as dengue, especially in resource limited settings, at a low-cost, high accuracy and reproducibility than currently existing systems. In this regard, multi-centre studies are being implemented simultaneously in Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital (SSSGH), Prasanthi Nilayam, Sri Sathya Sai General Hospital (SSSGH), Whitefield, Bangalore and Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences (SSSIHMS), Whitefield, Bangalore.