Laura M. Lechuga received PhotonTransfer in her office and ICN2 facility
Laura M. Lechuga is one of the most recognized researchers in biosensors and Surface Plasmon Resonance in the world and received PhotonTransfer at her lab in the ICN2 facility. This is what we learned.
Besides her scientific distinguished career as researcher* what is remarkable in the field of innovation on Laura’s profile is her large experience, even since her PhD thesis, working very close to the industry and applying her research results in spin-off companies, co-founding them, and/or by licensing the patents she co-invented (Laura co-created a Surface Plasmon Resonance technology).
Getting this outcome in a world and sectors where men have traditionally “ruled” is another victory. We know first-hand that taking research results into the market is difficult, and Laura first advise in this direction is to make a serious market research and to use open innovation tools such as deep SWOT analysis and a benchmarking.
Her position and achievements allows collaboration with large and recognized health research institutions. When coming to technology transfer or funding of a spin off, Laura agrees that being able to open doors at the industrial or venture capitals players is an asset scientific spin off still unfortunately lacks.
With an academic background in chemistry and optics (Laura understands perfectly the biosensor design compromise) she has a multidisciplinary team of physics, chemist and biotechnologist and collaborates with large clean room facilities, the scientific pool, universities and the Spanish National Research Council concentrated in Bellaterra.
According to Laura, complication on biosensor designs comes from chemical activation and biological functionalization and also from the microfluidics aspects more than the optics and physics detection principles.
* Head of the Nanobiosensors and Bioanalytical applications Group at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CIN2, CSIC), more than 170 scientific papers, 8 families of patents and patents applications (3 licensed).
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