The National Science Foundation awarded a $230,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a biosensing platform for rapid sorting, trapping, and analysis of extracellular vesicles and viral specimens. Over a three-year period ending in August 2025, the University will combine graphene electrodes and photonic waveguides to create a "waveguide-integrated graphene nano-tweezers" platform. This platform will enable physiologically selective, multimodal analysis of nanoscale vesicles and viruses at speeds approximately 100 times faster than conventional scanning methods. Outcomes will support applications in life sciences, nanomedicine, and disease diagnosis by allowing for amplification-free viral detection. The University aims to demonstrate efficient aqueous sorting and trapping of single vesicles and viruses using evanescent field excitation and dielectrophoretic trapping, followed by rapid detection via line-imaging optical scattering, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy techniques.