• Bioelectrochemistry
• Bioanalytical Chemistry
• Biosensors and Arrays
• Nanoparticle-based Cancer Drug Delivery
• Electrochemical Catalysis
• Computer Data Analysis

Awards

• Electroanalytical Chemistry Award of the American Chemical Society, 2009
• Walton Research Fellow, Science Foundation Ireland, 2008-2009
• University of Connecticut College of Lib. Arts & Sci. Award for Research, 2008-2009
• World Pharmaceutical Conference Tutor Award in Drug Metabolism, May 2008
• Chairman, Organic & Biol. Electrochemistry Div., Electrochemical Society, 2005-2007
• Fellow of Int. Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; Fellow of the Electrochemical Society University of Connecticut Chancellor’s Research Excellence Award, 2003
• American Editor, Electrochemistry Communications, 2002-2008
• University of Connecticut AAUP Research Excellence Award, 1997
• Drexel University Distinguished Alumni Award, 1996

Publications

M. Sharafeldin, T. Chen, G. U. Ozkaya, D. Choudhary, A. A. Molinolo,  J. S. Gutkind, J. F. Rusling, Detecting Cancer Metastasis and Accompanying Protein Biomarkers at Single Cell Levels using a 3D-Printed Microfluidic Immunoarray, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, 2020, in press.

Lasangi Dhanapala, Abby L. Jones, Patricia Czarnecki^, and James F. Rusling, Sub-Zeptomole Detection of Biomarker Proteins using a Microfluidic Immunoarray with Nanostructured Sensors, Anal. Chem. 2020, 92, 8021–8025; NIHMS submitted, DOI:10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01507 Link

Rumasha N. T. Kankanamage, Abhisek B. Ghosh, Di Jiang, Karmel Gkika, Tia Keyes, Laura Achola, Steven L. Suib, James F. Rusling. Metabolites of Tobacco and E-cigarette-related Nitrosamines can Drive DNA Oxidation, Chem. Res. Toxicology, 2020, in press. Link NIHMS submitted

Mohamed Sharafeldin, Karteek Kadimisetty, Ketki R. Bhalero, Tianqi Chen, and James F. Rusling, 3D-printed Immunosensor arrays for cancer diagnostics, Sensors, 2020, 20, 4514; doi:10.3390/s20164514. Link NIHMS submitted by journal

Lasangi Dhanapala, Colleen E. Krause, Abby L. Jones and James F. Rusling, Printed electrodes in microfluidic arrays for cancer biomarker protein detection, Biosensors, 2020, 10, 115; doi:10.3390/bios10090115. Link NIHMS submitted by journal

Di Jiang, Min Shen, Ben Ahiadu and James F. Rusling, Organ-Specific Screening for Protein Damage Using Magnetic Bead Bioreactors and LC-MS/MS, Anal. Chem, 2020, 92,  5337-5345. Link   NIHMS submitted

Abby Jones, Lasangi Dhanapala, Rumasha N. T. Kankanamage, Challa V. Kumar, and James F. Rusling, Multiplexed Immunosensors and Immunoarrays (Annual Review Issue), Anal. Chem., 2020, 92,  345-362. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b05080. PMC7202053