Abstract

Lab on Chip Platform Technologies for Point of Care Testing and Cell Culturing

Monica Brivio, R&D Project Manager, Micronit Microtechnologies

Lab-on-a-chip technologies are increasingly and successfully being applied in many application fields within chemistry and life science, including (bio)chemical analysis, molecular diagnostics, immunochemistry, cell sorting and analysis, drug screening and cell culturing, just to name a few.

As a world leader in the development and manufacturing of lab-on-a-chip components, Micronit Microfluidics has developed over the years a portfolio of platform technologies that can be used to provide our customers with microfluidic-based platforms for transferring assays and protocols to a microfluidic format. Point-of-care diagnostics and cell culturing are important application areas where lab-on-a-chip technologies are successfully being employed.

This presentation focuses on the latest advances in lab-on-a-chip platform technologies, such as integrated passive (capillary) and active (membrane) flow control elements, sample preparation tools and sensor integration that Micronit has developed for applications within for example point-of-care diagnostics and cell culturing. As an illustration of the applicability of these platform technologies a few examples of lab-on-a-chip demonstrators developed within research projects are also described.