
Position Title
Assistant Professor
Position Title
Assistant Professor
GBSF 3323
451 Health Sciences Dr., Davis CA 95616
451 Health Sciences Dr., Davis CA 95616
Bio
Dr. Carney develops new platforms for early-stage cancer diagnosis by applying spectroscopic methods to characterize circulating exosomes and related extracellular vesicles (EVs). The Carney Lab builds cutting-edge Raman spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) tools to investigate the broad range of EVs, with the goal of more sensitively and specifically identifying tumor-associated subpopulations. Projects include single vesicle Raman analysis of EVs isolated from ovarian cancer patient biofluids, chemical and materials synthesis of next-generation plasmonic SERS nanoprobes and microfluidic chip-based platforms that isolate EVs from clinical samples
Education and Degree(s)
- Ph.D. Materials Sci. & Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
- S.M. Materials Sci. & Engineering, MIT
- B.S. Chemistry, University of Arkansas
Honors and Awards
- Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Annual Research Scholar, UC Davis, 2020
- American Cancer Society (ACS) Research Scholar, 2019
Courses
- BIM 111 - Bioinstrumentation
- BIM 110 - Senior Design (Judge and Mentor)
- BIM 144 - Biophotonics
- Bim 265 - Nanoengineering
Research Interests & Expertise
- nanoplasmonics
- Raman spectroscopy/SERS
- cancer diagnostics
- extracellular vesicles
- exosomes
Membership and Service
- International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV)
- SPIE
- Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)