Researcher
Publications
1. Solo Author Lamyaa M. Almehmadi. FRACTAL: A Ratiometric-based Fingerprinting Framework for Robust Spectral Classification and Ratio-based Spectroscopic Marker Discovery. ChemRxiv. 12 October 2026.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15010325/v1
2. Lamyaa M. Almehmadi, Tushar S. Karnik, Jérôme Michon, et al. Robust and Reusable Waveguide-Enhanced Raman-on-a-Chip for Sensing Complex Fluids. ChemRxiv. 15 October 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15010508/v1
3. Denis Rajnovic, Fatima Matroodi, Lamyaa M. Almehmadi, Tea Carletti, Alessandro Gessini, Igor K. Lednev, Claudio Masciovecchio, Alessandro Marcello, Barbara Rossi“Native Label‐Free Spectral Biochemical Fingerprinting of an Enveloped Mammalian RNA Virus Reveals Mode of Action of a Virucidal Drug”, Small Methods (2026) https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.2025020
3. Invited Almehmadi, L.M. and Igor K. Lednev, “Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) at the Interface between Drug Discovery and Personalized Medicine: A review” J. Phys. Chem. (2024) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c04006 ((Accepted for Journal Cover), Published as part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C special issue “Celebrating 50 Years of SurfaceEnhanced Spectroscopy”)
4. Al-Hetlani, E.; Almehmadi, L.M.; Lednev, I.K. Raman Hyperspectroscopy and Chemometric Analysis of Blood Serum for Diagnosing Celiac Disease in Adults. Photonics , 12, 553. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics12060553
5. Almehmadi, L. M.; Reverdatto, S. V.; Ermolenkov, V. V.; Shekhtman, A.; Lednev, I. K. In Situ Stability Test for mRNA Vaccines Based on Deep-UV Resonance Raman Spectroscopy. Analytical Chemistry 2023. doi: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c01761 (Accepted for Journal Cover)
6. Almehmadi, L.M., and Lednev, I.K. Stand‐off Raman spectroscopy is a promising approach for the detection and identification of bloodstains for forensic purposes, J Raman Spectrosc 2023, 1. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.6609
7. Almehmadi, L.M., Valsangkar, V.A., Halvorsen, K., Zhang, Q., Jia Sheng, and Igor K. Lednev Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Drug Discovery: Peptide-RNA binding. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2022) doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-022-04190-5
8. Almehmadi, L.M., Curley, S.M., Tokranova, N.A. Scott A. Tenenbaum, and Igor K. Lednev Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Single Molecule Protein Detection. Sci Rep 9, 12356 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48650-y
9. Matroodi, F., Rajnovic, D., Marcello, A., Almehmadi, L.M., Masciovecchio, C., Rossi, B., and Lednev, I.K.
Deep-UV Resonance Raman spectroscopy for virus particle analysis (In preparation)
U.S. Patents
(1) Submitted for patent Stand-off Raman Spectroscopy for Body Fluids Analysis
Almehmadi, L.M., Lednev, I. K. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240053200A1/en
(2) Granted US patent: Detecting degradation of a polynucleotide by raman spectroscopy
I Lednev, A Shekhtman, L Almehmadi, Sergei Reverdatto - US Patent App. 19/147,615, 2026
(3) Submitted for Provisional patent Spectroscopic Platform for Drug Discovery: Peptide-RNA Binding
Lednev, I. K., Almehmadi, L. M., Sheng. J.