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Research project

Use of laser patterning to generate a highly sensitive lateral flow device for point of care diagnosis of COVID-19

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Chris McCormick BSc, DPhil, PGCert

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Positive strand RNA virus replication
  • Viral proteases
  • Viral host pathogen interactions
Connect with Chris

Email: cjm@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Collin Sones

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Collin

Email: cls@orc.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Research outputs

A SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid ELISA represents a low-cost alternative to lateral flow testing for community screening in LMI countries
Maria Humbert, Precious Opurum, Nathan Brendish, Stephen Poole, Peijun He, Ioannis Katis, Jerry Quaye, Yaw Bediako, Patrick Duriez, R.W. Eason, Collin Sones, Osbourne Quaye, Gordon Awandare, Myron Christodoulides, Tristan Clark, Peter Quashie & Christopher Mccormick, 2022, Journal of Infection, 84(1), 48-55
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.08.049
Type: article