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UIC undergraduate research forum 2024

Kelly Panariti showcased her work in a poster at the undergraduate research forum 2024 organized on April 15 as part of the 2024 UIC annual research week (April 15 – 19, 2024). Follow…

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AACR annual meeting in San Diego, CA

Dr. Jian Zhou and Celine Macaraniag had the opportunity to showcase their breakthrough research  in the poster session at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting in San Diego, CA. Follow…

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BME Research Symposium - 1st place poster award!

Celine Macaraniag’s poster won 1st place award at the BME department research symposium. Kelly Panariti’s poster also showcased the exciting research conducted in the lab. Congratulations to all the presenters and to Celine…

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CADMIM meeting at the University of California, Irvine

The Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics (CADMIM) Industrial Advisory Board meeting was held on February 22 – 23, 2024 at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Ian Papautsky, CADMIM…

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6th Annual BME Research Symposium

Celine Macaraniag and Kelly Panariti  will present posters at the 6th UIC BME annual research symposium on March 8, 2024. Join students, faculty and researchers from the BME department to hear more about…

Dr.Benjamin Owen gives BME department seminar at UIC!

Dr. Benjamin Owen, Fulbright Postodoctoral Research Associate from the University of Edinburgh, UK, who will join Dr.Papautsky’s lab for 6 months presented his work on ‘Numerical modelling of soft particles in inertial microfluidic…

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Qiyue defends her UIC doctoral thesis!

Qiyue Luan successfully defended her UIC doctoral thesis in biomedical engineering on 10/26/2023. Her project focused on ‘Microfluidic Microwell Platforms for Drug Response Studies in Non-small Cell Lung Carcinoma Patient-derived Organoids’. She has…

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MicroTAS 2022 - CHEMINAS Award!

Dr. Zhehao Zhang, a recent doctorate from our lab won the CHEMINAS Award for his poster titled: ‘Multiplexed, self-calibrated potentiometric sensor system for long-term, in situ measurements’. The Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano…

Sara Cardona MS thesis defense

Sara defends her UIC MS thesis!

Sara Cardona successfully defended her UIC MS thesis in biomedical engineering. Her project focused on ‘Numerical optimization of a microfluidic system for hydrodynamic trapping of tumor cells’. She also defended her italian thesis…

Filippo Amadeo MS defense

Filippo defends MS thesis!

Filippo Amadeo successfully defended his MS thesis in biomedical engineering. His work focused on ‘Polycarbonate Masters for Soft Lithography’.  Congratulations!

New paper on polycarbonate masters for soft lithography out!

Filippo’s paper on Polycarbonate Masters for Soft Lithography has just been published on Micromachines! If you are eager to know more about this fabrication technique check out the full article at the following…

MicroTAS 2021 - Palm Springs (CA)

Two abstracts from our lab have been accepted for poster presentations at the MicroTAS 2021 conference to be held in a hybrid online/in person format in Palm Springs from 10-14 October,2021. The two…

Paper on ion selective electrodes recently published!

Zhehao Zhang’s paper has been published in Electroanalysis! If you are interested to know more about miniature ion selective electrodes with carbon black as a solid contact, check it out here : https://doi.org/10.1002/elan.202100088…

New paper out!

Elena’s new paper is published in Environmental Science & Technology! The paper describes validation of our electrochemical sensor system, which could be a useful tool for rapid identification of manganese levels in drinking…

Multiple Awards at the BIOE Annual Research Symposium

Congratulations to Zhehao Zhang who won the 1st place for Graduate Student Talk and to Amanda Bogseth who won 2nd place for Undergraduate Student Talk at the BIOE Annual Research Symposium! Caterina Andreasi…

BIOE Annual Research Symposium

Amanda Bogseth and Zhehao Zhang will give oral presentations and Caterina Andreasi Bassi, Hua Gao and Qiyue Luan will present posters at the UIC BIOE annual research symposium to be held virtually on…

Caterina defends MS thesis!

Caterina Andreasi Bassi successfully defended her MS thesis in bioengineering. Congratulations!

18th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS)

Four lab members (Dr. Zhizhen Wu, Caterina Andreasi Bassi, Elena Boselli, and Zhehao Zhang) will be giving oral presentations at the 18th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS) in June. More details at https://imcs2021.gatech.edu/.…

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12/11 – Our review paper on label-free microfluidic sorting of microparticles has been published in APL Bioengineering. You can read it here: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5120501. Congratulations!

9/19 –UIC BIOE department features a story on Prithvi’s CCTS PECTS fellowship award. https://bioe.uic.edu/news-stories/bioe-phd-student-prithviraj-mukherjee-receives-ccts-pects-fellowship/.

8/20 -Dr. Papautsky will give an invited talk at the Cambridge Health Tech Institute (CHI) Eleventh Annual Enabling Technologies for Circulating Biomarkers conference taking place on August 20-21, 2019 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington DC

7/24 – Congratulations to Prithvi Mukherjee who was selected for the 2019 Pre-doctoral Education for Clinical and Translational Scientists (PECTS) Fellowship. Congratulations!

7/19 – Dr. Papautsky will give an invited talk at the 2019 Microsystems & Nanoengineering Summit (MINE2019) in Shanghai on July 7-10, 2019.

6/25 – Kristin Carter, Bioengineering sophomore,  joins the Papautsky lab for the summer as part of the College of Engineering GPIP program. Welcome aboard!

6/25 – Celine Macaraniag (B.S. Bioengineering) joins the Papautsky lab at UIC. Welcome aboard!

2/25 – Story on our paper on new microfluidics device that can detect cancer cells. Read it here: https://bioe.uic.edu/news-stories/new-microfluidics-device-can-detect-cancer-cells-in-blood/.

12.16.2016 Dr. Jian Zhou wins 3rd place Best Poster award.  Congratulations Jian!

12.12.2016 Dr. Jian Zhou presents at IEEE EMBS Micro and Nanotechnology in Medicine Conference meeting in Waikoloa, Hawaii.

12.07.2016 Dr. Papautsky gives talk at the NIH  Environmental Health Science FEST, at the Durham Convention Center in Durham, NC as part of the 50th anniversary celebration for the NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

11.29.2016 US Patent #9,506,855 issued to Dr. Papautsky, Dr. Li Shen & AFRL (“Method, System, and Device for Analyzing a Colorimetric Assay”)  – Congratulations!

10.09.2016 Four papers were presented at MicroTAS 2016 conference held in Dublin, Ireland.

09.26.2016 Dr. Papautsky gives talks at the SelectBio Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress and Liquid Biopsy meetings in San Diego, CA.

08.16.2016 We moved! The lab transitioned to the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Stay tuned for mode updates!

06.24.2016 Four papers were invited for presentation at the prestigious MicroTAS 2016 meeting in Dublin, Ireland.

06.22.2016 NIH does a story on our electrochemical sensors: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/supported/success/hayes_papautsky/index.cfm.

05.20.2016 A short story in ScienceDaily on our vortex separator: “Integrated inertial microfluidic vortex sorter for tunable sorting, purification of cells” https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160520110352.htm

05.20.2016 Another story in BioAnalysis Zone on our vortex separator: “Novel inertial microfluidic device could enhance sorting and purification of cells” by Ayan Ali http://www.bioanalysis-zone.com/2016/06/01/novel-inertial-microfluidic-device-could-enhance-sorting-and-purification-of-cells/

05.04.2016 Editorial on our R2R chip in Science Translational Medicine:  “Extra! Extra! Microfluidic chips go to print” by Cesar M. Castro, Science Translational Medicine, Vol. 8, Issue 337, pp. 337ec72 doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf8774 http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/337/337ec72

03.28.2016 Dr. Papautsky receives the Distinguished Engineering Researcher award. Congratulations!!

03.07.2016 Together with Dr. Bill Heineman from U. Cincinnati, Ian Papautsky co-organized the “Wearable and Point-of-Care Sensor Technologies for Biomonitoring” session symposium. He also gave an invited talk at the meeting.  CADMIM IAB Member ALine Inc. also had a booth at the exhibit.

03.07.2016 Dr. Papautsky gave an invited talk at the Pittcon conference in Atlanta, GA. BMSL work was also presented in 3 additional talks and posters.

02.23.2016 Dr. Papautsky gave an invited keynote talk at the 8th Workshop of Chemical and Biological Micro Laboratory Technology in Ilmenau, Germany.

02.16.2016 BMSL attends the Spring Industrial Advisory Board meeting for the NSF CADMIM in sunny Irvine, CA!  More than 50 attendees from industry, government, and academia.  Two days packed with technical presentations, demos, and lab tours!

02.03.2016 Congratulations to Xiao Wang – recent BMSL PhD graduate!

01.29.2016 Congratulations to Yuguang Liu  – recent BMSL PhD graduate!

12.14.2015 Congratulations to Nivedita Nivedita – recent BMSL PhD graduate!

10.25.2015 Dr. Papautsky gave a talk at the MicroTAS 2015 Conference in Gyeongju, Korea.  BMSL work was also presented in 3 posters.

10.21.2015 Dr. Papautsky gave an invited talk at the 25th International Society for Exposure Science (ISES) meeting in Henderson, NV.

09.08.2015  BMSL  hosts the Fall Industrial Advisory Board meeting for the NSF CADMIM!  More than 50 attendees from industry, government, and academia.  Two days packed with technical presentations, demos, and lab tours!

07.14.2015 Congratulations to Xing Pei – recent BMSL PhD graduate!

07.13.2015 Congratulations to Craig Murdoch – recent BMSL PhD graduate!

06.05.2015 Xiao and Nivedita presented their work at Gordon Research Conference on Microfluidics in West Dover, VT

05.27.2015 Wenjing and Xiao presented their work at the 227thElectrochemical Society meeting in Chicago, IL

05.04.2015 Congratulations to Mike Ratterman – recent BMSL PhD graduate!

04.28.2015 Congratulations to Nivedita who was awarded Outstanding TA award by the EECS Department!

04.01.2015 Congratulations to Yuguang, who was awarded the 2015 Summer Research Fellowship 2015 by the University Research Council!

03.21.2015 Congratulations to Prithvaraj Mucharjee – recent BMSL MS graduate!

01.16.2015 Congratulations to Yuguang, who was awarded 2015 Research Fellowship by the University Research Council!

12.12.2014 Dr. Papautsky gave an invited talk at IEEE EMBS meeting in Oahu, Hawaii. Did he look tanned?

12.12.2014 Wenjing and Xiao presented their work in at IEEE EMBS meeting in Oahu, Hawaii.  Congratulation to Wenjing on winning the best poster award!!!

10.26.2014  Wenjing at her poster at The 8th Conference on Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis. Wenjing’s work involved “Development of Point-of-Care Sensors for Determination of Lead and Manganese”

10.26.2014 Xiao and Nivedita present their posters at The Eighteenth International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life ScienceMicroTAS Conference ,San Antonio,Texas.  Xiao presented his work “A Low aspect ratio, Roll-to-Roll Hot Embossed Inertial Microfluidic Sorter”.  Nivedita presented her work:”Use of Secondary Dean Vortices in Spiral Microchannels for Cell Separation”

6.23.2014 Yuguang presents her work at the 9th International Meeting on Electrowetting and Related Micro/Electrofluidic Science and Technology, held at at Cincinnati Art Museum.

4.11.2014 New NSF Center Leverages Industry Partnerships to Improve Microfluidic Devices.The Center for Advanced Design and Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics (CADMIM) will have two sites, UCIrvine and the University of Cincinnati and four core faculty from each institution. Ian Papautsky, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, will serve as a CADMIM co-director. Click here to read more!

4.3.2014 Congratulations Yuguang!! She won the Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research grant!

4.3.2014 Congratulations to Yuguang, who was awarded the Summer Research Fellowship by the URC!

3.28.2014 Ian Papautsky leads a team of University of Cincinnati researchers who have developed a point-of-care sensor to measure metal levels in humans. His efforts as principal investigator of the project earned him a nomination in this year’s Cincinnati Business Courier Innovation Awards. Click here to read more!

3.12.2014 Ian Papautsky and George Shaw (Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine) awarded one of four collaborative projects through the latest round of the University Research Council interdisciplinary grants program. For more news click here.