Epidermal bioelectronic devices show great promise in healthcare due to their ability to provide longitudinal monitoring and on-demand delivery to maintain optimal health and evaluate patients' physical conditions. Epidermal biosensors are at the centre of this effort and offer a vast potential to revolutionise conventional diagnostics that use traditional laboratory test-based evaluations, usually called 'clinical labs,' that are slow and mainly require in-person visits and frequent invasive sampling if the long-term analysis is necessary.

In this presentation, Onur will give a brief overview of our recently developed epidermal diagnostic approaches targeting various metabolites, hormones and microorganisms, as well as some of the skin's physical and chemical parameters to acquire better knowledge on early diagnosis and disease progression, particularly for metabolic diseases and infections. This talk will summarise how to design epidermal sensors, integrated electronics and how to use them in a clinical setting with our unique access to patient materials, which creates an unprecedented opportunity to address fundamental questions in medical diagnostics.

Speaker profile

Onur Parlak is an Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institute in the Department of Medicine, Dermatology and Venereology Division. Dr Parlak received his PhD degree in Bioelectronics from Linköping University in 2015. He then joined Stanford University for postdoctoral research. After spending three years at Stanford, he turned back to Sweden and joined the Karolinska Institute to translate his engineering skills into medical settings with the support of Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) starting grant in 2019. He has recently been awarded by the Karolinska Institute and is acting as a research group leader as part of the Karolinska investment program to recruit and support leading young researchers with particularly outstanding scientific merit and future potential. He has recently been awarded by the prestigious European Innovation Council and the Swedish Research Foundation with starting grants in Medicine and Health. His research group at Karolinska and the Centre for Molecular Medicine specialises in epidermal sensors and personalised diagnostics.