Biosensor Engineering GmbH, based in Bochum, develops GaN sensors for point-of-care diagnostics and personalised medicine, which enable highly sensitive quantitative protein analysis as well as measurements of extracellular and intracellular signalling pathways, delivering results in a very short time. In future, these biosensors are expected to enable €5 breath tests in less than one minute, delivering diagnoses that are just as reliable as a PCR test, which takes 15 minutes for the same diagnosis and costs around €120. The primary target markets are human and veterinary in vitro diagnostics, as well as the pharmaceutical industry.
