About Cornell SensTech

A new Cornell project team competing in the international SensUs Competition

Cornell SensTech Team

Who We Are

We are a registered project team at Cornell University participating in the international competition SensUs, where teams from across the globe compete in the Netherlands to create the most cost-effective, user-friendly, and sensitive biosensor that can be used outside a lab. The theme for 2026-2027 is continuous monitoring of levodopa for Parkinson's disease.

Our team is composed of 14 highly motivated undergraduate students from diverse majors who are collaborating to create the biosensor, design a business plan and fundraise, as well as market the project. Throughout the year, scientists and industry experts who are partnered with SensUs will meet with us regularly over Zoom to advise the team on the project and prepare for the SensUs competition.

SensUs Competition

SensUs is an annual international competition where teams across the world compete to create the most sensitive, user-friendly, and accurate biosensor based on a given analyte and medium. Teams are free to choose how they develop their sensor and what techniques are used. This results in a variety of designs each year for each new prompt.

Health partners, stakeholders, and professors attend and judge the teams' biosensors based on creativity and the potential to get into the market. Four awards are given out each year which include: Analytical Performance (Accuracy), Innovation Potential (Science), Translation Potential (Business), and Public Inspiration (Marketing). SensUs is a great opportunity for networking with companies and professionals all within the field of biosensing and healthcare. SensUs' overall goal is to improve healthcare with personal systems that can easily, precisely, and conveniently monitor a user's health by detecting biomarkers that may indicate a disease.

SensUs Website