Notre Dame Serving Community Analytical Needs (ND-SCAN)

Notre Dame Serving Community Analytical Needs (ND-SCAN) will develop sensor technologies that healthcare providers, law enforcement, and harm reduction groups can use in the field to quickly and accurately identify high-potency synthetic opioids, cannabinoids, and other psychoactive substances in complex mixtures. These technologies will give caregivers, emergency responders, and health departments across Indiana and neighboring states critical information they need to address new substances infiltrating local illicit drug supplies.

ND-SCAN will use a new, 1,000-square-foot wet lab in McCourtney Hall as its headquarters to support the development of point-of-care and field technologies to address the opioid crisis and evaluate drug analysis technologies. ND-SCAN is led by Principal Investigator Nosang Myung, director of the ND Sensor Initiative, faculty director of the Analytical Science and Engineering at Notre Dame (ASEND) Core Facility, and the Bernard Keating-Crawford Professor of Engineering, and co-PIs Marya Lieberman, the Nancy Dee Professor of Cancer Research in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Matthew Webber, acting director of the Berthiaume Institute for Precision Health and the Keating-Crawford Collegiate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.