Krtin Nithiyanandam: Antibody-quantum-dot probe for early Alzheimer's detection
Antibody-quantum-dot probe for early Alzheimer's detection.
Born in Chennai and raised in Surrey, Nithiyanandam designed an antibody that binds an early Alzheimer's marker, oligomeric amyloid-beta, and to a receptor that helps it cross the blood-brain barrier, tagged with a light-emitting nanoparticle so a scan could flag the disease years before symptoms. It was an in-vitro proof of concept, not a validated diagnostic. He won the Scientific American Innovator Award at the Google Science Fair 2015 and later a Big Bang Fair prize for breast-cancer research.
IP note
No public patent record; research-stage.
Recognition
Google Science Fair 2015 Scientific American Innovator Award.
What this means for a student inventor in India
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