Biography
Dr Deng is currently a research associate in Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW. Dr Deng received his Ph.D. degree (specialising in point-of-care biosensing and Biomedical Engineering, 2021) from The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, Australia. He subsequently took up a research associate position at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering (GSBmE), UNSW. Deng’s research interests include point-of-care...view more
Dr Deng is currently a research associate in Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW. Dr Deng received his Ph.D. degree (specialising in point-of-care biosensing and Biomedical Engineering, 2021) from The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, Australia. He subsequently took up a research associate position at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering (GSBmE), UNSW. Deng’s research interests include point-of-care biosensing device, continuous biosensing device, CRISPR biosensing device and in vivo biosensing device. He is currently a key member of a multi-disciplinary team in GSBmE, leading the development of point-of-care biosensing device and real time continuous biosensing device.
Editorial Activities:
- Associate Editor for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Devices, Frontiers in Medical Technology.
- The host of Bio-focus seminar (2022), CNBP Node at Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering.
My Grants
- Cooperative Research Centres Projects, 2024-2026, CI
- NHMRC Idea Grant, 2024-2026, CI
- ARC Discovery Project, 2024-2026, CI
- Torch Innovation, 2023, CI
- Diversity in Engineering Academic Visitors Funding from UNSW, 2023, CI.
- Health Security Systems Australia, 2023, CI.
- NSSN Grand Challenge Fund, 2023, CI.
- Diversity in Engineering Academic Visitors Funding from UNSW, 2022, CI.
- 3Rs Grant from UNSW, 2022, CI.
- Industry competitive research award, 2022-2024, CI.
- Two Innovation connections grants, 2021 (RG211246, RG210091), CI on both.
- One EDI and ECAN seed funding from UNSW, 2021, CI.
My Awards
- Australian Centre for NanoMedicine (ACN) Travel Award (2023)
- UNSW Engineering ECA Awards – Innovation and Engagement Award (2022)
- ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) Travel Award (2022)
- Australian Centre for NanoMedicine (ACN) Travel Award (2022)
- PhD Scholarship in Sandwich assay based deployable biosensors (2017-2021)
- Excellent Graduate Thesis (Master, 2016)
- Foreigners Scholarship (Master, 2013-2016)
- Secondary Prize of Tianjin chemistry competition (Bachelor, 2011)
My Research Activities
Patent
- CRISPR/Cas-associated detection assays, methods and kits. (2023) PCT Patent. International application No. PCT/AU2022/050829.
- Ultrasensitive CRISPR biosensors assisted by nucleic acid mediators. (2023) PCT Patent. International application No. PCT/AU2023/051144.
- Biosensor. (2023) Australian provisional patent No. P0046904AU
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
1. Point-of-care biosensing
2. In vivo biosensing
3. CRISPR biosensing
Currently supervising
PhD Supervision Experience
- Co-supervising PhD research project: Development of rapid and sensitive methods for the detection of waterborne pathogens , 2024 (J. Arona)
- Co-supervising PhD research project: Programmable nucleases and applications in biosensing, 2023 (X. Zhai)
- Co-supervising PhD research project: Novel biosensors for exosome detection, 2023 (P. Mohammadnejad)
- Co-supervising PhD research project: Capture and detection of waterborne parasites using existing and emergent technologies, 2021 (T. Hall)
Thesis students
- Primary-supervising UG Thesis project: CRISPR/Cas powered aptasensor for the point-of-care diagnosis of IBD (K. Lyu), 2024
- Primary-supervising UG Thesis project: Precision diagnosis of single gene diseases using CRISPR technology (Y. Lin), 2024
- Primary-supervising UG Thesis project: Precision diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease using CRISPR technology (S. Xue), 2023-2024
- Primary-supervised UG Thesis project: CRISPR/Cas12a Mediated Biosensing Assay for Point-of-Care Testing of Calprotectin (S. Chia), 2023
- Primary-supervised PG Thesis project: Point-of-care testing of procalcitonin using lateral flow assay (J. Deodhar), 2023