Current CoVID-19 pandemics imposes an urgent need for developing better diagnostic tools for rapid identifying the infections. Similar needs are constantly emerged for other disease diagnostics, food safety, environmental monitoring, defense and security, as well as agriculture. We believe that UGA has all the resources and is in a unique position to develop a large international sensing & diagnostic center: UGA has a community of scientists working on different select agents, especially for infectious diseases and food safety. UGA has a group of scientists in Physics, Chemistry, and Engineering developing new sensor technology as well as networking methodology; UGA has the well-known bioinfomatic institute and Statistic department to implement innovative data technologies; The College of Public Health has the strength on disease prevention and related society work. Externally UGA has very close ties with CDC, WHO, USDA labs, as well as local hospitals, Emory, Georgia Tech, and Clemson. Here we bring together faculty and scientist in UGA and other places who are interested in the following five integrated research goals: To develop novel rapid diagnostic and sensing technology To develop sensing network for regional and global disease surveillance To establish and grow the sensing and diagnostic database To develop data processing technique for sensors and network To apply the new sensing technology and data analysis method to emerging infectious disease problems. The team is divided into four functional groups: the sensor development group, the sensor characterization group, the data science group, and the application group.
