Handbook of Immunoassay Technologies: Approaches, Performances, and Applications unravels the role of immunoassays in the biochemical sciences. During the last four decades, a wide range of immunoassays has been developed, ranging from the conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, to the smartphone-based point-of-care formats. The advances in rapid biochemical procedures, novel biosensing schemes, fully integrated lab-on-a-chip platforms, prolonged biomolecular storage strategies, device miniaturization and interfacing, and emerging smart system technologies equipped with personalized mobile healthcare tools are paving the way to next-generation immunoassays, and are all discussed in this comprehensive text. Immunoassays play a prominent role in clinical diagnostics as they are the eyes of healthcare professionals, helping them make informed clinical decisions via confirmed disease diagnosis, and thus enabling favorable health outcomes. The faster and reliable diagnosis of infections will further control their spread to uninfected persons. Similarly, immunoassays play a prominent role in veterinary diagnostics, food analysis, environmental monitoring, defense and security, and other bioanalytical settings. Therefore, they enable the detection of a plethora of analytes, which includes disease biomarkers, pathogens, drug impurities, environmental contaminants, allergens, food adulterants, drugs of abuse and various biomolecules.

About the Author
Mithilesh Singh is Senior Scientist at Department of Immunology, ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Bareilly, India. Dr Singh has been actively involved in research and teaching activities at IVRI, Bareilly for the last fourteen years. His research interest mainly focuses on animal health covering diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics. He has published various scientific papers in peer reviewed journals and book chapters in his areas of interests. He has one filed patent to his credit and has been involved in various extramural research projects as project investigator and collaborators. Prof John H.T. Luong is the Walton Fellow and Professor associated with the School of Chemistry of University College Cork, Ireland. He was the Professor and Division Head of Biomedical Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was also a distinguished Visiting Professor at University of Zhengzhou (China), a Visiting Professor at Nanocore, National University of Singapore, Bar-Ilan University (Ramat Gan-Israel), and Institut d'Electronique, de Microelectronique et de Nanotechnologie, Universite de Lille. He has received several awards for his excellent contribution in research, innovation and technology transfer. He is on the Editorial Board of several Journals and the Chief Editor of Frontiers in Biotechnology and Bioengineering- Nanobiotechnology. He has 10 patents and 330 publications with over 17,000 citations with an h-index of 71. He is the expert/reviewer/advisor/consultant for many international funding agencies and enterprises.


Book Information
ISBN 9780128117620
Author Sandeep K. Vashist
Format Paperback
Page Count 496
Imprint Academic Press Inc
Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Weight(grams) 790g