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BioElectronic Systems Technology group (BEST)

Professor Róisín Owens

Welcome to the BEST group

Our strategy is based on iterative improvements on the biological models and the electronic devices in parallel. This process is designed to synergistically generate improved systems that can be predictive of real biological systems, and is therefore useful for drug discovery and therapeutics.

Our group combines expertise in a wide range of disciplines including biochemistry, microbiology and cell biology on the ‘bio’ side, to materials science, electronics and chemistry on the physical sciences and engineering side.

On the materials side, we have generated significant expertise working with organic electronics, specifically conducting polymers that have been shown to be particularly apt at interfacing with biological systems. Organic bioelectronics is a field generating significant buzz in industry and amongst clinicians.

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Research

We develop iterative improvements in both biological models and the electronic devices that monitor them. We are developing better bioelectronic systems that are predictive of their real biological counterparts, for use in drug discovery and therapeutics research.

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People

Meet our interdisciplinary research group. Everyone from our postdoctoral researchers to our PhD students

A soft, flexible electronic implant designed to measure the electrical signals in the ‘second brain in our guts’ for the first-ever time.

Publications

Get caught up with the very latest from our group.

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