Researcher

Dr Fei Deng

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

  1. Australian Centre for NanoMedicine (ACN) Travel Award (2023)
  2. UNSW Engineering ECA Awards – Innovation and Engagement Award (2022)
  3. ARC Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) Travel Award (2022)
  4. Australian Centre for NanoMedicine (ACN) Travel Award (2022)
  5. PhD Scholarship in Sandwich assay based deployable biosensors (2017-2021)
  6. Excellent Graduate Thesis (Master, 2016)
  7. Foreigners Scholarship (Master, 2013-2016)
  8. Secondary Prize of Tianjin chemistry competition (Bachelor, 2011)

My Research Activities

Patent

  1. CRISPR/Cas-associated detection assays, methods and kits. (2023) PCT Patent. International application No. PCT/AU2022/050829.  
  2. Ultrasensitive CRISPR biosensors assisted by nucleic acid mediators. (2023) PCT Patent. International application No. PCT/AU2023/051144.  
  3. 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

  1. Co-supervising PhD research project: Development of  rapid and sensitive methods for the detection of waterborne pathogens , 2024 (J. Arona)
  2. Co-supervising PhD research project: Programmable nucleases and applications in biosensing, 2023 (X. Zhai)
  3. Co-supervising PhD research project: Novel biosensors for exosome detection, 2023 (P. Mohammadnejad)
  4. Co-supervising PhD research project: Capture and detection of waterborne parasites using existing and emergent technologies, 2021 (T. Hall)

 

   Thesis students

  1. Primary-supervising UG Thesis project: CRISPR/Cas powered aptasensor for the point-of-care diagnosis of IBD (K. Lyu), 2024
  2. Primary-supervising UG Thesis project: Precision diagnosis of single gene diseases using CRISPR technology (Y. Lin), 2024
  3. Primary-supervising UG Thesis project: Precision diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease using CRISPR technology (S. Xue), 2023-2024
  4. Primary-supervised UG Thesis project: CRISPR/Cas12a Mediated Biosensing Assay for Point-of-Care Testing of Calprotectin (S. Chia), 2023
  5. Primary-supervised PG Thesis project: Point-of-care testing of procalcitonin using lateral flow assay (J. Deodhar), 2023

My Teaching

1. Instructor, Biomedical Instrumentation - BIOM9640, UNSW

2. Instructor, Applications of Light in Engineering, Technology and the Life Sciences - BIOM9811, UNSW

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