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Overview

Gerald Urban is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and has published extensively in the field of engineering, with a focus on biomedical engineering. Their research spans a range of interdisciplinary subfields including molecular biology, bioengineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The main topics in Urban's research output include analytical chemistry and sensors, microfluidic and capillary electrophoresis applications, electrochemical analysis and applications, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, biosensors and analytical detection, neuroscience and neural engineering, and 3D printing in biomedical research.

Urban has contributed to several papers, notable among them:

  • On-Site Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, 2020, Trends in Biotechnology
  • CRISPR-powered electrochemical microfluidic multiplexed biosensor for target amplification-free miRNA diagnostics, 2021, Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • Microfluidic organ-on-chip system for multi-analyte monitoring of metabolites in 3D cell cultures, 2021, Lab on a Chip
  • A CRISPR/Cas13a-powered catalytic electrochemical biosensor for successive and highly sensitive RNA diagnostics, 2021, Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • Integrated Devices for Non-Invasive Diagnostics, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials

The venues where Urban most frequently publishes include Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Journal of Neural Engineering, Lab on a Chip, Advanced Functional Materials, and Advanced Materials.

During their career, Urban has frequently collaborated with several researchers. Among the most common coauthors are Jochen Kieninger, Andreas Weltin, Can Dincer, H. Ceren Ates, and Michael Bergmann.

Best Publications

  • Disposable Sensors in Diagnostics, Food, and Environmental Monitoring.

    Can Dincer;Richard Bruch;Estefanía Costa-Rama;Maria Teresa Fernández-Abedul

  • Multiplexed Point-of-Care Testing – xPOCT

    Can Dincer;Richard Bruch;André Kling;Petra S. Dittrich

  • SENSOR CON ELECTRODO PARA DETERMINAR EL CAUDAL DE UN FLUIDO

    Karinka Shindhara Alva;Moser Isabella;Jobst Gerhard;Tietjen Uwe

  • CRISPR/Cas13a‐Powered Electrochemical Microfluidic Biosensor for Nucleic Acid Amplification‐Free miRNA Diagnostics

    Richard Bruch;Julia Baaske;Claire Chatelle;Mailin Meirich

  • Miniaturized thin-film biosensors using covalently immobilized glucose oxidase☆

    G. Urban;G. Jobst;F. Kohl;A. Jachimowicz

  • Thin-film microbiosensors for glucose-lactate monitoring

    Gerhard Jobst;Isabella Moser;Mehdi Varahram;Peter Svasek

  • Determination of quantum confinement in CdSe nanocrystals by cyclic voltammetry

    Erol Kucur;Jürgen Riegler;Gerald A. Urban;Thomas Nann

  • Phaseguides: a paradigm shift in microfluidic priming and emptying.

    Paul Vulto;Susann Podszun;Philipp Meyer;Carsten Hermann

  • Cell culture monitoring for drug screening and cancer research: a transparent, microfluidic, multi-sensor microsystem

    Andreas Weltin;Kinga Slotwinski;Jochen Kieninger;Isabella Moser

  • Improved efficiency of hybrid solar cells based on non-ligand-exchanged CdSe quantum dots and poly(3-hexylthiophene)

    Yunfei Zhou;Frank S. Riehle;Ying Yuan;Hans-Frieder Schleiermacher

  • Biosensor arrays for simultaneous measurement of glucose, lactate, glutamate, and glutamine

    Isabella Moser;Gerhard Jobst;Gerald A. Urban

  • Miniaturized multi-enzyme biosensors integrated with pH sensors on flexible polymer carriers for in vivo applications

    G. Urban;G. Jobst;F. Keplinger;E. Aschauer

  • On-Site Therapeutic Drug Monitoring.

    H. Ceren Ates;Jason A. Roberts;Jeffrey Lipman;Jeffrey Lipman;Jeffrey Lipman;Anthony E.G. Cass

  • Toward Continuous Monitoring of Breath Biochemistry: A Paper-Based Wearable Sensor for Real-Time Hydrogen Peroxide Measurement in Simulated Breath

    Daniela Maier;Elmar Laubender;Abhiraj Basavanna;Stefan Schumann

  • Microfluidic chip with integrated electrical cell-impedance sensing for monitoring single cancer cell migration in three-dimensional matrixes.

    Tien Anh Nguyen;Tsung-I Yin;Diego Reyes;Gerald A. Urban

  • SONDA PARA EL TRATAMIENTO POR CORRIENTE ELECTRICA DEL TUBO DIGESTIVO

    Nashef Basem Dr;Urban Gerald Dr;Kovac Werner Dr;Denck Helmuth

  • Microsensor systems for cell metabolism – from 2D culture to organ-on-chip

    Jochen Kieninger;Andreas Weltin;Hubert Flamm;Gerald A. Urban

  • Electrochemical characteristics of nanostructured platinum electrodes – a cyclic voltammetry study

    P. Daubinger;J. Kieninger;T. Unmüssig;G. A. Urban

  • CRISPR-powered electrochemical microfluidic multiplexed biosensor for target amplification-free miRNA diagnostics.

    Richard Bruch;Midori Johnston;André Kling;Thorsten Mattmüller

  • Microfluidic organ-on-chip system for multi-analyte monitoring of metabolites in 3D cell cultures.

    Johannes Dornhof;Jochen Kieninger;Harshini Muralidharan;Jochen Maurer

  • Electrochemical glucose sensors on permselective non-conducting substituted pyrrole polymers

    Thomas Schalkhammer;Eva Mann-Buxbaum;Fritz Pittner;Gerald Urban

Frequent Co-Authors

Zlatko Trajanoski
Zlatko Trajanoski Innsbruck Medical University
Jürgen Heinze
Jürgen Heinze University of Regensburg
Thomas Nann
Thomas Nann University of Newcastle Australia
Wilfried Weber
Wilfried Weber University of Freiburg
Roland Zengerle
Roland Zengerle University of Freiburg
Jens Ducrée
Jens Ducrée Dublin City University
Hirotsugu Yasuda
Hirotsugu Yasuda University of Missouri
Bernhard Jakoby
Bernhard Jakoby Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Stefan Kramer
Stefan Kramer Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Andreas Manz
Andreas Manz Imperial College London

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