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Takeaways from the 2011 Wyss Institute Microfluidics & Medicine Symposium (part 1)

By Lily | Published: June 30, 2011

Last month I attended the Wyss Institute’s Symposium on Microfluidics and Medicine, a fantastic gathering of some of the most influential people in microfluidics from around the world. While many speakers were from academia, it was different from a typical academic conference because (in the spirit of the new Wyss Insitute) the focus was on how microfluidics could be launched [...]

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FluidicMEMS May 2011 Event: Bill Rodriguez of Daktari Diagnostics

By Lily | Published: June 28, 2011

Terrific to have Bill Rodriguez, CEO and founder of Daktari Diagnostics, speak at the FluidicMEMS gathering on May 26th sponsored by MicroPEP, where a mix of ~50 microfluidics folks in the Boston area from academia and industry gathered over food and drink to meet, exchange ideas, and trade stories. Daktari is developing a portable microfluidic CD4 cell counter for HIV patients [...]

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3/21/2011: On-Q-Ity’s Mara Aspinall to speak at MassBio Annual Meeting

By Lily | Published: March 13, 2011

On March 21, On-Q-Ity’s Mara Aspinall will be speaking at the upcoming MassBio Annual Meeting in Cambridge, MA focused on personalized medicine.  On-Q-Ity is developing microfluidic diagnostics for detecting rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and was featured in a FluidicMEMS blog post last year.  Since then On-Q-Ity has forged a strategic alliance with LabCorp, a larger company that offers established sales, [...]

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Wyss Institute Symposium May 9, 2011: MICROFLUIDICS AND MEDICINE

By Lily | Published: February 9, 2011

The Wyss Institute at Harvard (recently mentioned in this previous post) is holding a symposium on May 9, 2011 on “Microfluidics and Medicine: accelerating the flow from lab to clinic.” For those of you interested in commercialization of microfluidics, this is a fantastic opportunity to hear from leaders in the area. Definitely check this out!  [...]

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12/9: Sangeeta Bhatia talks at MIT on cooperative nanosystems for cancer diagnosis and therapy

By Lily | Published: December 7, 2010

Triggered self-assembly of nanoparticles by tumor protease (MMP-2). Image credit: Sangeeta Bhatia Another great talk this week at MIT from the MNSS Seminar Series to close out the year: on Thursday 12/9 at 3pm MIT Prof. Sangeeta Bhatia will be giving a talk on “Engineering Cooperative Nanosystems for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy.” The talk will be [...]

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12/6: MIT webinar on value creation and capture in the microfluidics market

By Lily | Published: December 3, 2010

Update: For those not able to attend live, the recorded presentation is available here: http://tinyurl.com/3744jx6. Thanks to Carrie Stalder of the Venture Cafe for the tip on an intriguing talk on Monday December 6, 2010 from noon-1pm EST by Shailendra Anand Yadav of the Broad Institute on “Analysis of Value Creation and Value Capture in [...]

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12/2: Don Ingber speaks at MIT on biomimetic microsystems

By Lily | Published: December 1, 2010

On Thursday December 2, Professor Don Ingber of Harvard’s Wyss Institute will be giving a talk at MIT on “Biomimetic Microsystems Technologies: Organs-on-Chips” as part of the Micro/Nano-technology Seminar Series. The talk will be held at 3pm in MIT Building 1 Room 190. Ingber is known for his pioneering work on cell mechanics. In addition [...]

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Event: Microfluidics & Nanotechnology in Drug Discovery June 23, 2010

By Lily | Published: May 29, 2010

Drug discovery and development is hard. It can easily take 15-20 years to get to market from the time a new drug is identified, and throughout that period the risk of failure is high. Even drugs that make it past most of the hurdles can end up getting dumped after 20 years of work due [...]

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Michael Vahey wins Senturia Prize for microfluidic / isodielectric cell screening method

By Lily | Published: April 27, 2010

I’m happy to announce that Michael Vahey, a former colleague from the Voldman lab at MIT, has won this year’s Senturia Prize for his Ph.D. thesis work on a novel microfluidic technique for separating and characterizing cells according to their electrical properties. This method offers a new tool for biologists looking to screen millions of [...]

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5/17: Microfluidics @ World Health Medical Technology Conference @ Boston University

By Lily | Published: April 15, 2010

If you’re interested in how microfluidics can be applied to global health, check out the upcoming World Health Medical Technology Conference at Boston University on May 17th.  While there are many types of technology that can be applied to global health problems (see entries for MIT’s $100K Business Plan Contest Development Track as examples), it’s [...]

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