Co-Investigator
Chris Geddes is a Professor with the University of Maryland Medical Biotechnology Center and the head of The Institute of Fluorescence, founded by Dr. Geddes in early 2001. The Institute's mission is to develop and deploy novel fluorescence techniques and tools to advance biosensing, bioimaging and to protect and safeguard human health. With an array of internationally known scientists as members, the Institute of Fluorescence boasts hundreds of man years of fluorescence experience.
Dr Geddes's research group has developed a platform technology for ultra fast and ultra sensitive clinical testing. The new technology combines the use of Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence (MEF) to amplify fluorescence signatures up to a million fold, with the use of low power microwaves. The resultant technology, Microwave-Accelerated Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence (MAMEF), when applied to antigen, antibody or protein detection, can be applied to STD identification without the need for time consuming laboratory processing and amplification, such as by real-time PCR.
