DREAM Sentinels: Selection of aptamers that target viral variants with high specificity — NSF Award to University of Texas at Aust
To combat infectious diseases, this project will develop a versatile platform that has a much shorter turn-around time in generating a new capture molecule that specifically binds a new viral variant with high affinity. The investigators will further convert the captured molecule into a sensor for virus detection, and
| Award title | DREAM Sentinels: Selection of aptamers that target viral variants with high specificity |
|---|---|
| Award ID | 2235455 |
| Awardee | University of Texas at Austin |
| City | AUSTIN |
| State | TX |
| Amount obligated | $718,956 |
| Principal investigator | Hsin-Chih Yeh |
| Program | Special Initiatives, BIOSENS-Biosensing, Systems and Synthetic Biology |
| Start date | 01/01/2023 |
| Abstract | To combat infectious diseases, this project will develop a versatile platform that has a much shorter turn-around time in generating a new capture molecule that specifically binds a new viral variant with high affinity. The investigators will further convert the captured molecule into a sensor for virus detection, and also turn it into a blocking molecule to neutralize the virus. The current selection process is time-consuming and labor intensive. The goal of this project is to develop a streaml |
| Source | NSF Awards |
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