Fall Research Expo 2020

Diagnosis Screening of Ovarian Cancer using DNA-Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Vapor Sensor

The project focuses on the development of nanosensors based on carbon nanotubes and functionalized DNA to screen ovarian cancer. The ovarian cancer fatality rate is high when discovered in the late-stage; however, most of the patients survived if treated at the early stage. Blood from patients with cancer has a different composition of volatile organic compounds(VOCs) and the sensor is built to detect VOCs and distinguish between each group of blood samples(healthy, benign, and malignant). The project incorporates machine learning algorithms to test out the accuracy of the sensor, finding the one method that is the most suitable for data analysis. 

PRESENTED BY
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
College of Arts & Sciences 2023
Advised By
A.T. Charlie Johnson
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PRESENTED BY
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
College of Arts & Sciences 2023
Advised By
A.T. Charlie Johnson

Comments

Very interesting project! You mentioned having a small sample size for the study. How did you source data for this study (EMR/EHR data? clinical trial data?), and are there plans to test this method on a larger population?