Please give a lot of attention and participation from the members of the Mechanical Engineering department.

▣ 주   제: Microfluidic technologies for medical diagnostics and global health

▣ 연   사: Peter B. Lillehoj 교수

▣ 소   속: Rice University

▣ 일   시: 2024. 6. 3.(Mon) 15:00

▣ 장   소: 제4공학관 D604호

▣ 초   청: 최종은 교수

▣ 초   록

In the past few decades, microfluidics has led to significance advances in basic biomedical research and clinical medicine through the development of miniature biomedical devices which are low cost, reliable and simple to use. Towards this end, my lab explores new strategies to create innovative microfluidic and BioMEMS platforms for broad applications in diagnostic testing and global health. In this talk, I will present a few of these technologies, including a microfluidic device for immune cell quantification, a mobile phone-based biosensor for rapid diagnostic testing and a microneedle-based skin patch for blood-free infection detection. The design and fabrication of these devices, as well as experimental results demonstrating their capacity to perform analytical measurements using clinical samples, will be presented. I will conclude by briefly commenting on our efforts to translate these technologies into clinical practice, as well as the future directions of this research and its potential to improve healthcare, both domestically and globally.