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Articles and interviews featuring AMANDA Lab research, rapid sensing technologies, and Prof. Massood Tabib-Azar’s work.

Latest Grants and Publications

Newest Grants

Wearable Smart Sensors To Continuously Monitor Illicit Drugs Through Skin Sweat

Promteus23 Dec 2025 – 1 Jan 2027 | Promteus

Certus Critical Care Lactate Sensors

CERTUS CRITICAL CARE INC1 Dec 2024 – 31 Dec 2025 | CERTUS CRITICAL CARE INC

Electronic Sensors To Detect 5 Illicit Drugs

FIRST CAPITAL VENTURES LLC1 Sep 2024 – 15 Jan 2026 | FIRST CAPITAL VENTURES LLC

Multiplexer With Minimized Parasitics For 10X10 Pathogen Sensor Array

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION11 Sep 2023 – 1 Dec 2024 | UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Plasma Ionization Spectroscopy

1 Sep 2022 – 15 Dec 2023

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Newest Publications

Micro-balance biosensors to detect whole viruses

M Tabib-Azar | US Patent 12,540,915 , 2026 | 2026

Aptamer-Coated Impedimetric Sensors for Sodium Lactate Detection

JA Qureshi, M Tabib-Azar | IEEE Sensors Letters 10 (2), 1-3 , 2025 | 2025

Atomic resolution mapping and electrochemical analysis of illicit drug-aptamer complexes and their terahertz signatures

JA Qureshi, G Abdollahi, M Tabib-Azar | 2025 IEEE 20th Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC), 305-309 , 2025 | 2025

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Article  |  Jan. 15, 2021


University of Utah professor develops rapid, portable COVID-19 test for competition

From ksl.com

Massood Tabib-Azar’s rapid test is a small electronic device that can detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2 through a user’s breath or a drop of saliva and delivers results in less than a minute.

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Competition finalist announcement



Interview  |  June 26, 2020


Developing a device to detect COVID-19

From attheu.utah.edu

Science writer Lisa Potter interviewed Prof. Tabib-Azar about a portable, reusable sensor designed to connect to a cellphone and detect coronavirus in about 60 seconds.

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Faculty profile



Interview  |  May 7, 2020


U of U professor’s portable sensor could be game changer in COVID-19 testing

From abc4.com

The interview highlights Prof. Tabib-Azar’s portable sensor concept for detecting viruses in a user or in the surrounding environment with rapid results.

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