M.D.-ERL

Our group is interested in the development of medical diagnostic microdevices with a primary focus on human blood electrokinetics. Our goals are to develop portable, point of care tools that can provide rapid, quantitative results for disease diagnosis and monitoring. Our hope is that treatment methods can become more streamlined and better tailored to the patient with the additional, easy to obtain information from microdevices. Currently, the medical diagnosis of blood disorders rely on expensive and time-consuming procedures that are outsourced to special analytical laboratories. Our lab is studying emerging electrokinetic microdevice technology, which has the potential to replace off-line lab analysis with point-of-care devices that could provide the patient with positive or negative results, along with quantitative information on disease progression, in less than 5 minutes. Outgrowths of the new technology might include portable diagnostic devices for acute diseases or monitoring..

Primary location: Houghton United States