About Shiddiky Group
Point-of-care (POC) devices
A general theme in this work is to develop devices and methods that can be used at the time and place of patient care (i.e., point-of-care) using minimum specialised infrastructure and equipment. Taking advantages of recently discovered genetic, epigenetic and other novel molecular biomarkers, our group is focused on novel molecular bioassays to develop simple and inexpensive diagnostic technologies for POC detection of cancer, infectious and neurodegenerative diseases.
Artificial enzymes for biosensing
Natural peroxidases are widely used to oxidise organic substrates in the biocatalysis and bioseparation processes. Recently, it has been shown that ferromagnetic nanoparticles exhibit enzyme mimetic activity similar to that found in natural peroxidases. We are pursuing studies of developing novel strategies for the detection of molecular and cellular biomarkers using highly porous magnetic nanoparticles with superparamagnetic property.
Latest News
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Direct Exosome Analysis with “Single exosome per microliter” sensitivity
Feb 10, 2019Following our long-standing collaboration with Yamauchi at UQ and Salomon Groups at UQCCR, we developed an extremely
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Research review bolsters nanoarchitecture material as quick, effective and inexpensive cancer detection
Jan 26, 2019A team of Griffith University researchers have highlighted a way to potentially detect cancers and other diseases
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A comprehensive review on CTC clusters
Sep 26, 2018More than 90% of cancer related deaths are caused by metastasis, the spread of cancer to body
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Critical Review-Bisulfite-treatment free DNA methylation detection
Sep 24, 2018Patterns of DNA methylation are altered in cancer cells and play important roles in cancer development and
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Congratulations to Dr Kseniia Boriachek
Sep 18, 2018Hearty congratulations to Dr Kseniia Boriachek, who has recently been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
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PhD Scholarship in “Magnetofluidic sample handling for enhanced electrochemical detection of cancer biomarkers in whole blood”
Aug 14, 2018Applications are being sought from appropriate candidates for a PhD scholarship working on an ARC Discovery Project.
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Private: Cover image at ANALYST
Jul 9, 2018Our recently accepted publication has been selected as the ‘Inside Front Cover’ of the latest edition of
Recent Featured Publications
We maintain an integrated and interactive research environment within the group and with collaborative laboratories, where 3 to 4 students work in a team on related projects. The novice students are directly supervised by Dr Shiddiky as well as assisted by senior PhD students. We also emphasise on highly focused project-based effective partnership with collaborative laboratories to speed up the ongoing and emerging research activities. Weekly lab meetings on every Monday are designed to facilitate brainstorming and maintaining this interactive environment in the group. The interdisciplinary efforts and highly integrated and interactive culture of our group help us to publish high quality research articles in the top ranked journals in the field (i.e., JACS, Analytical Chemistry, ACS Nano, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Chemical Communications, Lab on a Chip, Clinical Chemistry, Scientific Reports, etc). Some selected papers published in past 6 months are –
Meet our team
Dr Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky
He is currently a Senior Lecturer and Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) CDF Fellow in the School of Natural Sciences at ...
