tabrizi, Josep ferré-Borrull & Lluis f. Marsal * the determination of trypsin in the human real sample is a routine medical investigation to assess the pancreatic disease. Herein, we fabricated an interferometric reflectance spectroscopy based biosensor for the determination trypsin. For this purpose, urease and fluorescein 5(6)-isothiocyanate (FLITC) were immobilized on the nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA). The operation principle of the proposed biosensor is based on the change in the pH of the solution during the reaction of urease and urea and therefore change in the light-absorbing ability of fLitc in the presence of trypsin. the reaction of the urease enzyme with urea increased the pH of the solution because of producing ammonia. this increase in the pH of solution increased the light-absorbing ability of the immobilized fLitc on nAA and therefore the intensity of the reflected light from the NAA to the charge-coupled device detector decreased. in the presence of trypsin, the catalytic activity of immobilized urease on nAA decreased. this decrease in the activity of urease enzyme consequent on the decrease in the amount of the generated ammonia. therefore, the immobilized fLitc on the nAA did not absorb more light and consciously, the intensity of the light reflected light into the detector increased. The proposed biosensor exhibited a good response to the concentration of trypsin in the range of 0.25-20 μg.mL −1 with the limit of detection of 0.06 μg.mL −1. Millions of people in the world suffer from some form of pancreatic diseases 1. According to world health statistics reports, pancreatic diseases id associated with a tremendous economic burden 2,3. Due to reduce the economic losses caused by this disease and also to improve the public health, the fabrication of a device to diagnose this disease is important for every government. The routine laboratory test for pancreatic disease diagnosis is the determination of trypsin the human real sample. Trypsin is a serine protease with a potential role in pancreatic cancer that can cleavage the peptides on the carbonyl side of arginine and lysine amino acids 4. In the acute pancreatitis patient that is a fatal disease, the concentration of trypsin reaches up to 84.4 µg.mL −1 in the urine sample that is so higher than its normal rage (115-350 ng.mL −1) 5. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a simple, selective, sensitive, and low-cost sensor for trypsin detection. However, most of them are complicated, low sensitivity, time-consuming, and expensive method 6-10. To overcome these problems, biosensors become more interested to detect trypsin 11,12. The biosensor is an analytical device which includes a transducer and a biomolecule (such as the enzymes, antibodies, and aptamers) 13-15. Among the various biosensors that have been reported for the sensing of bio-targets, the optical biosensors are more interested because of their high sensitivity, small and lightweight, remote sensing ability, immunity to electromagnetic interference, capability for monitoring a wide...