Center Objectives and Priorities

 

Objective Title

Strengths

Weaknesses

Threats

Opportunities

Commercialization

• Utilization of advanced and innovative technologies for the design and evaluation of biosensors

• Creation of opportunities for patent registration, intellectual property, innovation cycles, and wealth generation

• Lack of physical and financial resources

• Weak connection between industry and academia

• Dependence on equipment and precision tools

• Limited access to certain international information resources for research activities

• Weak connection between industry and academia

• Encouragement of interdisciplinary joint projects

• Potential for competition in advanced technological fields

Enhancing Human Resource Capabilities

• Empowering specialized and committed human resources

• Lack of recognition for researchers in society

• Budget constraints

• Job instability and low job security for personnel

• Establishing operational connections between engineering and medical sciences

Scientific Content Production

• Publishing and promoting sciences and products related to the center's fields

• Becoming a reference center in this domain at national and international levels

• Shortage of faculty members and researchers

• Budget limitations

• Absence of incentive systems for motivating research personnel

• National focus on nanotechnology as a global scientific frontier

Infrastructure Activities

• Development of specialized laboratories

• Shortage of faculty members and budget constraints

• Possibility of creating technological monopolies regarding advanced equipment

• Utilizing the infrastructural activities of other centers

Research Priorities

1. Smart wearable electrochemiluminescence POC sensor and biosensor
2. Smart lateral flow assay
3. Bench-type POC device based on fluorescence detection of isothermal nucleic acid amplification reactions
4. Investigation of new molecular targets for diabetes/metabolic syndrome treatment
5. Proteins and peptides used in diabetes treatment (design and engineering possibilities)
6. Disease modeling in zebrafish and studying the effects of drugs and nanostructures

Research Lines

1. Identification and screening of biomarkers using point-of-care (POC) tests
2. Molecular modeling related to drug targets in glands and metabolism
3. Animal modeling (zebrafish) in clinical research (endocrinology and metabolism)