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Our Team

Syed  Barizuddin,  Ph.D. is the  CEO of Plasmonic  Diagnostics and the  Principal Investigator  on a current SBIR award.  He has over 10 years of experience  working in the field of medical diagnostics  and over 20 publications in this field. He has worked both in the academia and industry. Syed has  significant expertise in biosensors and diagnostic systems.  Other experience includes working on research and development  of high-throughput devices to detect biomarkers for infectious diseases, afflictions like Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and pathogens.  He has filed 5 patents with 3 already been issued. Syed is also an expert  in the fabrication of microfluidics and micro-fabrication devices, which enable  usage of samples in minimal quantities during the detection process.

Sangho  Bok, Ph.D.  is the CTO of  Plasmonic Diagnostics,  and an assistant professor  of engineering at Southern Utah  University. Previously, he was a  senior research scientist at Nanos  Technologies, LLC. He brings significant  expertise to the table related to the grating  technology, nanotechnology, immunoassays, and miniaturized  optical systems. Dr. Bok has submitted several US  and  international patents  on nanotechnology and  grating techniques and published  many journal articles in the area of biomedical  diagnostic assays  and nanotechnology.  He has presented his  research on Tuberculosis  in several conferences. He  also has expertise in botulinum  neurotoxin sensors as well as cortisol  sensors. Dr. Bok also has experience working  as a key member of a start-up company and is  an expert at navigating the day-to-day research and  development pace for successfully contributing to the  project.

Charles  M (Chase)  Darr, Ph.D.  is the Director  of Operations. He  has a multidisciplinary background integrating research  in the areas of nanomaterials, plasmonics, and fluorescence for chem/bio  sensor applications. His prior work includes  development of high-surface-area thin films for  biosensors, dye-doped nanoparticles to improve signal-to-noise  ratio in fluorescent biosensor systems, and a plasmonic-enhanced  chemosensor to detect nitroaromatics that utilized a plasmonic grating  platform similar to that  licensed  by Plasmonic  Diagnostics, LLC. Chase has multiple  publications from this  work with more in the pipeline,  several of which are directly related  to applications of the plasmonic grating  platform. Other significant experience includes  programming and instrumentation.

Advisory Committee

Dr. Salzer is an American Board of IM – Infectious Disease physician with 30 years of clinical and research experience. He is an expert in infectious diseases, HIV and immunology. He is a recipient of many awards that included him elected him amongst the “Best Doctors in America® 2009-2010” and inclusion in “The Global Directory of Who’s Who” as a TOP DOCTOR to represent Columbia, MO.

Dr. Afsar is an Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Deccan College of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, India. She is also a Consultant Pathologist for various pathology labs with a high turn-over of patients that work on diagnosis of pathological and microbiological tests for various infectious diseases. She has extensive knowledge working in low-resource settings and high-burden infectious disease areas. She has many international publications to her credit.

Dr. Naseer is a multiple American Board-Certified physician with 15 years of experience with child and adolescent patients in low resource and rural settings. She has extensive in-patient and clinical experience. She also works with populations who are addicted to intoxicants and drugs making them susceptible potential infection of HIV and infectious disease.