SensUs

SensUs is the yearly international student competition on molecular biosensors for healthcare applications. Teams of students at international universities design and build innovative biosensing systems, and demonstrate and present their prototypes to a broad audience during a public contest day. The competition aims to stimulate the development of biosensing technologies that will in the future improve the quality of life of patients.

SensUs 2016

SensUs 2016 is the first EDition of the yearly competition. The student teams originate from five international universities: University of Leuven , Imperial College London, Uppsala University, Technical University of Denmark, and Eindhoven University of Technology. The contest takes place on the 9th and 10th of September at Eindhoven University of Technology. SensUs 2016 is a pilot year with a limited number of universities; more universities will be able to join in 2017.

Trends in healthcare

Healthcare is developing towards highly personalized treatments, attuned to the needs of patients, based on real time, precise and reliable data. Important enablers are miniaturized and easy to use biochemical sensing devices, which will help to improve the monitoring, treatment and coaching of patients. This includes sensing systems for near-patient testing (point-of-care) as well as small systems that are worn on or in the body (sensors for monitoring applications). As a consequence, over the coming decades biochemical sensing technologies are needed which are small, sensitive, accurate, easy to use, cost effective, and versatile.

Approach of the competition

Each year SensUs selects a well-defined goal that is to be targeted by the participating teams, e.g. a molecular biomarker that is to measured. With the same functional end goal, the teams develop creative solutions and unique prototypes of biosensors. At the contest all prototypes are shown, shared, appreciated, and discussed. In this way, SensUs becomes an international platform for learning, for the generation of novel solutions and for open innovations in the field of molecular biosensors for healthcare applications.

External Links

SensUs Facebook page
Announcement of SensUs
News article Sept 2015 in English
News article in Dutch