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Research interests
Dr Estrela’s research focuses on the development of label-free electrical biosensors and chemical sensors for a wide range of applications such as medical diagnostics and environmental monitoring.
Dr Estrela research interests include
- label-free electrical detection of biomolecular interactions
- biologically sensitive field-effect devices
- detection of DNA, proteins, bacteria, cells, ions and small molecules
- electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of biological systems
- use of solid state devices in aqueous environments
- surface biofunctionalization
- electronic addressing of microarrays
- nanobiosensors
- microfluidics
Dr Estrela’s work has a strong multidisciplinary nature and he has collaborations in place with electrical engineers, physicists, chemists, molecular biologists, chemical engineers, pharmacologists, clinicians and industry.
Willing to supervise PhD
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Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
Master of Physics, Universidade de Lisboa
Keywords
- TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
- Biosensors
- QD Chemistry
- Electrochemical sensors
- Biosensors
- Biosensing Technologies
- Bioengineering
- Electrochemistry
- Sensors
- Nanobiosensors
- Bioelectronics
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Biosensors
Chemical Compounds
Labels
Chemical Compounds
Nucleotide Aptamers
Chemical Compounds
Prostate-Specific Antigen
Chemical Compounds
Gold
Chemical Compounds
DNA
Engineering & Materials Science
Antigens
Engineering & Materials Science
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
Chemical Compounds
Network
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Projects 2009 2020
Cancer Diagnosis: Parallel Sensing of Prostate Cancer Biomarkers: MARIE CURIE - PROSENSE Training budget
Estrela, P., Eggleston, I., Frost, C., Lloyd, M., Pascu, S. & Tyrrell, R.
1/10/12 → 30/09/16
Project: EU Commission
Budgets
Prostatic Neoplasms
Tumor Biomarkers
Biomarkers
Biosensing Techniques
Novel Biosensors Based on Synthetic Recognition Elements Embedded in Redox Active SAMs
Estrela, P., Frost, C. & James, T.
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
1/11/14 → 31/10/15
Project: Central government, health and local authorities
HiPAD- High Throughput, label-Free Detection of High-Density Peptide MicroArrays
Estrela, P., Bowen, C. & Taylor, J.
1/01/12 → 30/04/16
Project: EU Commission
Microarrays
Labels
Throughput
Peptides
Proteins
Epigenetic enrichment of circulating tumour DNA to enable deep profiling for cancer early detection
1/01/19 → 31/03/20
Project: UK charity
Research Output 1994 2020
Platform for Change
Pula, G., Estrela, P., Bhalla, N. & Di Lorenzo, M., Jun 2015, Innovations in Pharmaceutical Technology, 53, p. 30-33 3 p.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Drug Industry
Phosphotransferases
Phosphorylation
Costs and Cost Analysis
Proteins
Researchers develop platform to aid kinase drug discovery
Estrela, P., Bhalla, N., Di Lorenzo, M. & Pula, G., 21 Apr 2015, Pharmaceutical Journal.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Biochips
Phosphotransferases
Costs
Drug Discovery
30
Citations
(Scopus)
113
Downloads
(Pure)
Optimisation of an electrochemical impedance spectroscopy aptasensor by exploiting quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation signals
Formisano, N., Jolly, P., Bhalla, N., Cromhout, M., Flanagan, S., Fogel, R., Limson, J. & Estrela, P., 1 Dec 2015, In : Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. 220, p. 369-375 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Nucleotide Aptamers
Quartz crystal microbalances
Prostate-Specific Antigen
quartz crystals
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
13
Citations
(Scopus)
114
Downloads
(Pure)
Multimodal electrochemical and nanoplasmonic biosensors using ferrocene crowned nanoparticles for kinase drug discovery applications
Formisano, N., Bhalla, N., Wong, L. C. C., Di Lorenzo, M., Pula, G. & Estrela, P., Aug 2015, In : Electrochemistry Communications. 57, p. 70-73 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
File
Biosensors
Phosphotransferases
Nanoparticles
Surface plasmon resonance
Biomolecules
Thesis
A Study of Multichannel Open Circuit Potentiometry in Biosensor Applications
Author: Wong, L. C. C., 20 Jun 2018Supervisor: Estrela, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
File
A study on the optimisation of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy biosensors
Author: Formisano, N., 24 Feb 2016Supervisor: Estrela, P. (Supervisor) & Taylor, J. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
File
Biosensors for drug discovery applications
Author: Bhalla, N., 6 Jan 2016Supervisor: Estrela, P. (Supervisor), Di Lorenzo, M. (Supervisor) & Pula, G. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD
File
Electrochemical detection of cancer biomarkers
Author: Zhurauski, P., 13 Dec 2017Supervisor: Estrela, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › MPhil
File
Investigations into New Functionalised Thiosemicarbazones and Related Carbon Nanohybrids for the Imaging of Prostate Cancer
Author: Cortezon Tamarit, F., 1 Mar 2017Supervisor: Pascu, S. (Supervisor), Estrela, P. (Supervisor), Tyrrell, R. (Supervisor) & Frost, C. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD