 Professor Gerard L. Coté is an expert in biomedical sensing for diagnostic and monitoring applications. His focus is developing innovative hand-held and wearable point-of-care technologies and systems for a variety of chronic and infectious disease applications using optics, electronics, microfluidics, paper fluidics, nanoparticles, and assays. He has coauthored over 400 publications, proceedings, and abstracts. He is an entrepreneur, holds several U.S. patents, and has co-founded three medical device companies namely, BioTex, BasePair BioTechnologies, and Visualase (acquired by Medtronic in 2014). Coté is a Fellow of five organizations including the National Academy of Inventors, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He is also the recipient of several awards including the IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award, Sigma Xi Walston Chub Award for Innovation, the University of Connecticut School of Engineering Academy of Distinguished Engineers, the Distinguished Achievement Award for Graduate Mentoring, Distinguished Achievement Award for Research and the Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching, all from the Texas A&M Association of Former Students. |
