Ruchi Sharma, PhD
Ruchi Sharma, PhD, has 10 years of experience in microfabrication technology, VOC sensing, and gas chromatography (GC) with applications in biomedicine, environmental protection, and Plant health monitoring. She developed a multi-dimensional µGC under the project partially supported by an NIH grant. It is used for breath analysis of patients in the UM hospital and animal model studies. Recently, under a project supported by NIH, using an in-house developed breath analyzer, we were able to diagnose COVID patients using breath VOCs. Dr. Sharma expanded her research to the development of a portable automated micro gas chromatography system for rapid, sensitive, and in-situ analysis of hundreds of (semi-) VOCs in various environmental and biomedical applications. The present study will allow her to significantly expand her knowledge and skill set using µGC for breath analysis for disease diagnosis and assessment. This grant will provide a platform to publish papers in journals and prepare her to continue research in an area for generating biomarkers for a given disease using a non-invasive (breath) technique.
Dr. Sharma has worked on projects with a multi-disciplinary team, such as Physician, Data scientist, Nurse, and Respiratory therapist. We have a few joint publications.