Biomedical and Bioinspired Circuits and Systems
This research line embraces all activities related with the development of alternative bio-instrumentation circuits and systems required to reproduce classical and to propose new measurement techniques at bio-medical labs to improve the quality of acquired biosignals.
Targets design for bio-instrumentation systems are focused also to reduce the human effort and cost of biomedical assays, to obtain the minimum size and weight of biosystems (Lab-on-a-Chips, LoCs), to research new measurement methods based on high performance integrated circuits and system design with low-power consumption, wide bandwidth, reduced power supply levels and wireless communication capability. Electrical modeling of sensors required as signal transducers and interfaces must be incorporated to circuit design flow to obtain full system characterization. This research line also considers the modelling of heterogeneous systems for full system simulations.
Main recent activities are:
S.F. Scagliusi, L. Giménez-Miranda, P. Pérez-García, D. Martín-Fernández, F.J. Medrano-Ortega, G. Huertas and A. Yúfera, "Bioimpedance Spectroscopy-Based Edema Supervision Wearable System for Noninvasive Monitoring of Heart Failure. ", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023 » doi
J.A. Serrano, P. Pérez, P. Daza-Navarro, G. Huertas and A. Yúfera, "Predictive cell culture Time Evolution Based on Electric Models.", Biosensors. Vol. 13. Núm. 668. Pag. 1-15, 2023 » doi
D. Martín, J. Bocio, S.F. Scagliusi, P. Pérez, G. Huertas, A. Yúfera, M. Giner and P. Daza, "DC electrical stimulation enhances proliferation and differentiation on N2a and MC3T3 cell lines. ", Journal of Biological Engineering. Vol. 16. Núm. 27. Pag. 1-13, 2022 » doi
E. Rando, P. Pérez, S. Fernández-Scagliusi, F.J. Medrano, G. Huertas and A. Yúfera, "A Plethysmography Capacitive Sensor for Real-Time Monitoring of Volume Changes in Acute Heart Failure.", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. Vol. 70, 2021 » doi
P. Pérez, J.A. Serrano, M.E. Martín, P. Daza, G. Huertas and A. Yúfera, "A computer-aided design tool for biomedical OBT sensor tuning in cell culture assays.", Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. Vol. 200. Pag. 1-8, 2021 » doi
J.A. Serrano, P. Pérez, G. Huertas and A. Yúfera, "Alternative general fitting methods for real-time cell-count experimental data processing", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 20, no. 24, 2020 » doi
P. Pérez, G. Huertas, A. Maldonado-Jacobi, M. Martín, J.A. Serrano, A. Olmo, P. Daza and A. Yúfera, "Sensing Cell-Culture Assays with Low-Cost Circuitry", Scientific Reports, Nature Group, vol. 8, article 8841, 2018 » doi
D. Rivas-Marchena, A. Olmo, J.A. Miguel, M. Martinez, G. Huertas and A. Yufera, "Real-time electrical bioimpedance characterization of neointimal tissue for stent applications", Sensors, vol. 17, no. 8, art. 1737, 2017 » doi
G. Huertas, A. Maldonado, A. Yufera, A. Rueda and J.L. Huertas, "The Bio-Oscillator: A Circuit for Cell-Culture Assays", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 62, pp. 164-168, 2015 » doi
Gloria Huertas Sánchez, Andrés Maldonado Jacobi and Alberto Yúfera García. Bioimpedance measurement system for wirelessly monitoring cell cultures in real time, based on an oscillation test using integrated circuits. 2014 » pdf
Alberto Yúfera García, Alberto Olmo Fernández and Gloria Huertas Sánchez. Bioimpedance measuring system for wirelessly monitoring cell cultures in real time, based on CMOS circuits and electrical modelling. 2014 » pdf
Optimización de los procesos de diferenciación en células madre y tumorales basada en electroestimulación.
PI: Alberto Yúfera García / Paula Daza Navarro
Project Type: Plan Estatal 2021-2023 - Proyectos Investigación Orientada
Funding Body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Reference: PID2021-122529OB-I00
Sep 2022 - Aug 2025
Sistema de medida y electroestimulación para aplicaciones de diferenciación y motilidad celular (SYMAS 2) (US-1380661)
PI: Alberto Yúfera García / Gloria Huertas Sánchez
Project Type: Proyectos I+D+i FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020
Funding Body: Junta de Andalucía (Consejería de Economía, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad)
Reference: US-1380661
Jan 2022 - May 2023
SYMAS: Sistema de medida y electroestimulación para aplicaciones de diferenciación y motilidad celular (P18-FR-2308)
PI: Alberto Yúfera García / Gloria Huertas Sánchez
Funding Body: Junta de Andalucía - Proyectos de Excelencia
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
VOLUM: Valor pronóstico en tiempo real para la monitorización del volumen mediante medidas de bioimpedancias
en pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca aguda (HEART-FAIL VOLUM)
PI: Alberto Yúfera García
Funding Body: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Jan 2020 – Dec 2021
iSTENT: Real Time Monitoring of Hemodinamic Variables using Smart Stents (iSTENT) based on Capacitive and Bioimpedance Sensors (RTI2018-093512-B-C21)
PI: Alberto Yúfera García
Funding Body: Min. de Ciencia e Innovación
Jan 2019 – Dec 2021
MIXCELL: Integrated MicroSystems for Cell-Culture Assays
PI: Alberto Yúfera García
Funding Body: Min. de Economía y Competitividad
Jan 2014 - Dec 2017