2024 Industry Laureate Profile: Scientia Professor John Gooding

Scientia Professor John Gooding

Administering Organisation: The University of New South Wales

Fellowship Project Summary 

IL240100091 – One biosensing technology for the continuous monitoring of many biomarkers

Being able to continuously monitor molecular species in biological samples was an unmet sensing need for decades until the invention in 2017 of electrochemical sensors that use sequences of DNA. Melbourne based Nutromics have licensed this IP to commercialise this powerful technology. This project will achieve this through understanding how the sensing interface operates at the single molecule level and using this knowledge to develop surface chemistries to make the aptamer sensors easier to manufacture, more reproducible, more stable and able to detect proteins as well as small molecules. Nutromics will leverage this research to bring this technology to their market of wearable sensors for personalised wellbeing. The implications of Nutromic’s success will be to revolutionise environmental monitoring, food processing, biosecurity, infection detection and wellbeing. The outcomes of this project will include commercial devices sold globally, training of the next generation of entrepreneurial researchers and the building of a sensing ecosystem right here in Australia. This will place Australia as the global leader in this powerful new era of wearable sensors. 

Australian Research Council funding: $3,749,892

Industry Partners: Nutromics PTY LTD

To find out more about Professor Gooding, please visit his profile page here.

For further information about this funding scheme, please visit the Industry Laureate Fellowships page.