Pan Research Group
Materials in translational medicine

Our Research

Our research is not organized around individual diseases alone. We develop technology platforms capable of addressing multiple biomedical problems.

Materials That Sense

We create novel materials and molecular recognition systems capable of detecting nucleic acids, proteins, metabolites, and biological states.

Examples

  • PNA and antisense molecular recognition
  • Infectious disease diagnostics
  • Women's health diagnostics
  • Liquid-biopsy technologies
  • Wearable and continuous sensors
  • Molecular lateral flow systems
  • Electrochemical biosensing

Fabricated in the lab

Sensor chips designed, printed and characterised in-house — the hardware behind the point-of-care work.

  • Sensor array on a wafer under illumination
  • Gold-electrode sensor chip fabricated in the lab
  • Sensor chip with contact pads

Selected publications, 2024–2026

Infectious disease diagnostics

Molecular lateral flow systems

PNA and antisense molecular recognition

Wearable and continuous sensors

Materials That Deliver

We engineer materials capable of transporting therapeutic cargo to defined biological targets.

Examples

  • Drug delivery
  • Nonviral gene delivery
  • CRISPR delivery
  • Ionizable lipids
  • Context-responsive nanoparticles
  • Targeted nanomedicine
  • Image-guided therapy

Selected publications, 2024–2026

Drug delivery

Targeted nanomedicine

Further publications

Materials That See

We design molecular probes that allow imaging technologies to visualize disease biology.

Examples

  • K-edge nanoprobes
  • Photon-counting CT
  • Spectral CT
  • Molecular imaging
  • NIR-II imaging
  • Image-guided therapy
  • Multimodal imaging

Selected publications, 2024–2026

Multimodal imaging

Spectral CT

Materials That Replace and Respond

We develop engineered systems that reproduce, augment, or respond to biological function.

Examples

  • Artificial blood and oxygen therapeutics
  • Bio-inspired nanoparticles
  • Responsive materials
  • Wearable therapeutic systems
  • Closed-loop sensing and delivery

Selected publications, 2024–2026

Artificial blood and Oxygen therapeutics

Wearable therapeutic systems