Research

In both her graduate and postdoctoral work, Dr. Marjon Zamani has pioneered the development of affordable, scalable biosensors for diagnostics. In her graduate work, she invented gold leaf electrodes that were an order of magnitude cheaper than their commercially available counterparts; the fabrication of these electrodes doesn't require any specialized equipment, making them a scalable and affordable alternative to traditional gold electrodes. She combined these electrodes with a CRISPR-based assay to detect HPV from clinical samples, demonstrating their utility as an affordable, point-of-care diagnostic. In her postdoc, she demonstrated that these electrodes exhibit superior biosensing performance to their commercially available counterparts,  and has led a team to expand this platform to detect other pathogens.