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6/30/10 - Governor Bill Ritter announces a Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research grant for Prof. Neeves and his studies of blood coagulation in microfluidic devices.

12/3/09 - Prof. Neeves has been awarded a 4-year $300k grant from the American Heart Association titled "The Role of Thrombin Flux on Fibrin Deposition and Clot Stability under Flow".

9/22/09 - Prof. Neeves, in collaboration with Jorge Di Paola, MD at UC-Denver, has been awarded an NIH Challenge Grant titled "Use of Microfluidics in Determining Hemostatic Phenotypes" for $1 million.

8/18/09 - Prof. Marr receives a $1.3 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIH) to develop optical-trapping based instrumentation for cell mechanical property measurement.

8/12/09 - Prof. Squier receives a $700 thousand STTR grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to build a high-speed, highly parallel microfluidic device fabrication laser workstation.

5/14/08 - PI's Jeff Squier and David Marr featured on local news (29 MB).


 

Microintegrated Optics For Advanced Bioimaging and Control

Optical methods have been used for hundreds of years in biology. There is significant (and general) need for making these tried and true methods more accessible & portable as well as to make new optical techniques available to laboratory researchers. MOABC focuses on the integration of optical technology into microscopic and microfluidic systems, a need supported by unique facilities and capabilities that serve as the foundation of a very useful community resource.

Commercial microfluidic systems under development for the past decade have aimed at high margin application niches such as pharmaceutical research and drug discovery. These systems are predominantly disposable microfluidic cartridge-based systems, yet require a bench-top or larger “main-frame” interface. Nearly all the complexity, cost, and reliability limitations are associated with the optics, fluidics, and electronics components in the mainframe. For research and diagnostic platforms to impact broader markets and become widespread tools both inside and outside of the laboratory, the hardware must be simplified and miniaturized. Functions currently performed by peripheral hardware must be integrated directly into the microscale platform. Our long-term goal focuses on reducing macroscale optics and electronics to an “optical lab-on-a-chip” compatible with the fluidics lab-on-a-chip paradigm by developing new methods of biological measurement and manipulation based on microintegrated optics.

 

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