Other Track AgendasBiosensors, Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies | Organ-on-a-Chip Europe 2017 | Point-of-Care Diagnostics 2017 |
Wednesday, 10 May 201708:00 | Registration | | Day One | | Session Chair: Maiwenn Kersaudy-Kerhoas, Professor of Microfluidic Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom |
| | 09:00 | New Diagnostic Tools for Managing Fever in MSF Settings Ethan Guillen, Dx program manager, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), United States of America
Many patients present to Médecins Sans Frontières with fevers that are difficult to diagnose. There is a need for affordable, robust, semi-open source multiplex diagnostic platforms at the referral level to identify the fever-causing pathogen, antibiotic susceptibility, and bacterial infections. | 09:30 | Advanced Molecular Based Point of Care Diagnostics in Low Resource Settings Aman Russom, Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
| 10:00 | Microfluidic Acoustic Flow Cytometry: A Pathway to Point-of-Care and High-Speed Parallel Cellular Diagnostics Steven Graves, Professor, University of New Mexico; President & CEO, BennuBio Inc., United States of America
I will present our work to develop synergistic technologies that dramatically reduce the cost, size, and operational requirements of an individual flow cytometer, while simultaneously enabling highly parallel flow cytometry analysis of multiple flow streams to dramatically increase analytical throughput. | 10:30 | Coffee & Networking in Exhibition Hall | 11:00 | Highly Integrated Sample-to-Answer Microfluidic Cartridges for Diagnostic and Life Science Applications Holger Becker, Chief Scientific Officer, Microfluidic ChipShop GmbH, Germany
The presentation will describe the development strategy for microfluidics-enabled integrated sample-to-answer cartridges for diagnostic applications. Various examples for molecular, immunological and cell-based diagnostic assays will be given. | 11:30 | | 12:15 | Focal Molography: A Diffraction-limited Focal Spot Robustly Monitors Biological Interactions in Real-time in Complex Samples Andreas Frutiger, Researcher, ETH Zurich , Switzerland
| 12:45 | Lunch & Networking in Exhibition Hall | 13:15 | Poster Viewing Session | 13:30 | Free Workshop Translating Customers Ideas into Microstructured Smart Polymer Parts Workshop Iris Bergmair, Head of Sales & Business Development | 14:30 | POC Blood Coagulation Monitoring Using Paper-Based Lateral Flow Devices Andrew Steckl, Gieringer Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, University Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati, United States of America
We will discuss the key POC application of paper microfluidics in the monitoring of blood coagulation properties. This is a critical factor for patients undergoing anti-coagulation therapy for cardiovascular disease, requiring frequent monitoring. | 15:00 | Drug Quantification in Whole Blood within Microstructures for Point-Of-Care Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Jean-Manuel Segura, Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Valais, Switzerland
The talk will present our recent results towards the development a point-of-care device for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. In particular, an assay enabling the quantification of small drugs in whole blood using paper-like microchambers for filtering and measurement will be discussed.
| 15:30 | Silicon Photonics Point-of-care Biosensor Platforms Peter Bienstman, Professor, Ghent University, Belgium
We present low-cost biosensor platforms in silicon photonics, showing applications in protein and DNA detection, as well as detection of conformational changes of molecules. | 16:00 | Coffee & Networking in Exhibition Hall | 16:30 | | 17:15 | Paper as a High-Tech Material for Printed Point-of-Care Sensors Firat Guder, Assistant Professor, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
In this presentation, I will talk about our latest work on paper-based sensors and how they enable new classes of low-cost technologies for point-of-care diagnostics. | 17:45 | Drinks Reception in Exhibition Hall | 18:45 | End of Day One |
Thursday, 11 May 2017 | Day Two | | Session Chair: Rosanne Guijt, Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania, Australia |
| | 09:00 | Priority POC Diagnostic Tests for Developing Countries and Emerging Markets Bill Rodriguez, Chief Medical Officer, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Switzerland
| 09:30 | | Keynote Presentation Origami for Paper Based DNA testing of Infectious Diseases Jonathan Cooper, The Wolfson Chair of Bioengineering, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
We have recently developed a new platform, enabling us to obtain DNA based information of species, for the diagnosis of a range of infectious microbes, on a “low-cost” paper format using origami-paper folding to manipulate the sample and reagents. |
| 10:30 | Coffee & Networking in Exhibition Hall | 11:00 | Analytical Testing Opportunities to Support Autologous Gene Therapy Chaminda Salgado, Cell & Gene Therapy Medicinal Process Delivery Leader, GlaxoSmithKline, United Kingdom
The talk walks through the very unique challenges in commercialising autologous ex-vivo gene therapies, a potential new market for POC diagnostic technologies.
| 11:30 | | Keynote Presentation Printable Paper-Based Point-of-Care Aptasensors for Biomedical Monitoring John Brennan, Professor and Director, Biointerfaces Institute, McMaster University, Canada
The talk will focus on the development of printable components to produce bioactive paper sensors with a range of capabilities, including integrated sample preparation, aptamer-based biorecognition, DNA amplification and text-based readout technologies that can allow multi-step reactions on paper with ultra-sensitive detection capabilities. |
| 12:15 | Microfluidics Devices for Affordable Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Sickle Cell Anaemia Debjani Paul, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Presentation summary: I will describe a point-of-care diagnostic test for sickle cell disease using a mobile phone microscope and a microfluidic imaging chip. | 12:45 | Lunch & Networking in Exhibition Hall | 13:15 | Poster Viewing Session | 13:30 | Free Workshop The Fast Tracking Medical Diagnostics and Biosensor Technologies to the Market Workshop Martin Peacock, Director | 14:00 | Pencil and Paper Diagnostic Devices in The Hands of Untrained Users Andres Martinez, Professor, California Polytechnic State University, United States of America
A paper-based glucose assay was prepared and performed by a group of untrained users, students in a first-year college chemistry course. Their results provide some important lessons for researchers working with simple point-of-care diagnostics. | 14:30 | A Troponin T Assay with Lab-like Performance at the Point-of-Care using a Novel Immunochemistry Platform Eloisa Lopez-Calle, Head Assay Formats, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Germany
A cardiac troponin T assay was developed on a new immunoassay platform technology for its determination with lab-like performance within 11 minutes. The test-carrier consists of a ready-to-use microfluidic disc with fully integrated reagents. | 15:00 | Electrokinetic Size Mobility Trap for Point of Care Analysis Rosanne Guijt, Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania, Australia
A size mobility trap (SMT) allows for the electrokinetic extraction, concentration and desalting of analytes from complex sample matrices. Examples of the SMT include the quantitative analysis of ampliciilin from whole blood and human serum albumin from urine. | 15:30 | Coffee & Networking in Exhibition Hall | 16:00 | New Lyophilization Strategies Boosting POC Technologies Thomas Brandstetter, Group Leader, University of Freiburg, Germany
POC-kits suffer often by unsufficient lyophilization strategies, cost-intensive cooled kit delivery and storage. Copolymers will help to get rid of these limitations. qRT-PCR One-Step Master-Mix, an enzyme mix of reverse transcriptase and Taq-Polymerase, will be used as highly relevant demonstrator. | 16:45 | Simple Blood Collection Solutions for the Future for Homecare Arthur Queval, Founder, Qloudlab, Switzerland
Blood collection solutions for Point-of-Care diagnostics: A comprehensive review and future opportunities.
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