[Finding LAB] Increased Potential for Early Diagnosis of Intractable Diseases and Infectious Diseases

Research Team Led by Professor Jae-Beom Joo, Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University

The research team led by Professor Jae-Beom Joo of the Department of Chemistry at Chung-Ang University has opened the door to the possibility of early diagnosis of intractable diseases and infectious diseases through a paper on a nanoplasmonic biosensor that can overcome the limitations of existing in vitro diagnostic technologies.

Professor Jae-Beom Joo's research team is taking a commemorative photo. [Photo by Chung-Ang University]

Chung-Ang University announced on the 14th that a paper by Professor Jae-Beom Joo on in vitro diagnostic technology using a nanoplasmonic biosensor was recently selected as the cover paper of Chemical Society Reviews.

Chemical Society Reviews is a review journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. It is regarded as a world-renowned academic journal with an Impact Factor (IF) of 46.2.

Recently, the demand for in vitro diagnostic technology has been increasing. Rapid and accurate in vitro diagnostic technology is necessary to conquer intractable diseases such as cancer, which has a high mortality rate, and infectious diseases like COVID-19 that swept the world since 2020.

Professor Joo’s research team introduced the possibility of early diagnosis of intractable diseases using nanoplasmonic in vitro diagnostic technology through this paper. It has attracted attention as a technology that can overcome the limitations of fluorescence and chemiluminescence analysis methods, which have mainly been used in in vitro diagnostic tests until now.

This paper was presented by Professor Joo, a current Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, who was invited to present at the Highlighted Themed Issue organized by Chemical Society Reviews. Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Sung-Woon Lee served as the first author, and Professor Lingxin Chen of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor Sang-Woo Joo of Soongsil University participated as co-corresponding authors.

Professor Joo’s team conducted this research with support from the Leading Research Center Project (ERC) organized by the National Research Foundation of Korea. Selected for the Leading Research Center Project (ERC) in 2020, Professor Joo serves as the director of the Chung-Ang University Nano-Optical Convergence Biomedical Diagnostic Research Center (ERC) and is conducting related research.

Professor Joo said, "To conquer intractable diseases and infectious diseases, the development of a new concept of highly sensitive in vitro diagnostic technology is absolutely necessary. We expect that the nanoplasmonic diagnostic technology currently being developed at Chung-Ang University will meet these demands."