Defeating the winter vomiting disease
Researchers develop a virus warner
Soon we can take technology to avoid getting infected by the unpleasant winter vomiting disease. A research team at KTH EE leads a European consortium developing a virus warner to detect whether the virus is in the air.
Frederick Carlborg leads a group of researchers at the Micro and Nanosystems at KTH EE that are building on previous research carried out within Wouter van der Wijngaart’s research group. Frederick Carlborg is also the project coordinator for the European research consortium that is working on a first prototype of a virus warner that ultimately can detect and warn of Noroviruset in real-time.
- Now that more European partners and also the manufacturing industry are part of the collaboration, the sensor can be made more efficient than previous versions, says Fredrik Carlborg. With the demonstrator, we can in pratice verify what researchers previously demonstrated indirectly or in lab experiments: that the virus is actually transmitted through the air and not just by contact infection. Meanwhile, we can also read off the amount of virus particles in the air, which is interesting from several aspects.
The group at Micro- and Nanosystems includes the PhD students Niklas Sandström, Reza Shafagh, Laila Ladhani, postdoctoral Gaspard Pardon and Professor Wouter van der Wijngaart.
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