Eric Cummings,
Chief Technical Officer,
LabSmith, Inc.
Dr. Eric Cummings founded LabSmith in 1995 to commercialize high-speed timing equipment he developed as a Caltech graduate student. He then spent seven years as a researcher at Sandia National Labs, where he conceived and verified several foundational microfluidic theories including ideal electrokinesis, streaming dielectrophoresis (DEP), insulator-based DEP, and coherent nonlinear chromatography. LabSmith’s first microfluidic products (the HVS448 high-voltage sequencer and SVM340 microscope) were developed by Dr. Cummings to address specific instrumentation needs for his laboratory research. Dr. Cummings continues to develop products and applications for LabSmith, while also acting as CEO for Maxout Renewables – a solar electronics company he founded to bring down the cost of photovoltaic installations.
Entrepreneurial Research: Tools and Techniques for Creative, Efficient Microfluidic Research Spanning Electrophoresis, Flow Control, and Real-Time Particle Image Analysis
Wednesday, 9 October 2019 at 08:00
Add to Calendar ▼2019-10-09 08:00:002019-10-09 09:00:00Europe/LondonEntrepreneurial Research: Tools and Techniques for Creative, Efficient Microfluidic Research Spanning Electrophoresis, Flow Control, and Real-Time Particle Image AnalysisSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
We tend to think of “research” and “product development” as separate enterprises: the former characterized by creativity, the latter by application. Yet successful, entrepreneurial researchers are expert at capitalizing on creativity while also optimizing for value, cost, and time.
A growing body of commercial equipment is available to help researchers develop creative solutions efficiently, with a clear path from test apparatus to fully-fledged product. In this talk we will discuss LabSmith products and tools for microfluidics research and product development. We will show how this apparatus makes it easy to assemble and automate instruments spanning technologies such as multi-channel electrophoresis and dielectrophoresis, pressure, flow and temperature control, and real-time particle counting and characterization. We will show how these resources help researchers create custom solutions that: produce robust results; apply affordable, broadly available apparatus to move research from test setup to prototype to product; and, take advantage of automation to reduce time and improve test efficiency.
We will provide examples in diverse microfluidic technologies that have been applied in academia and business with remarkable success.
Add to Calendar ▼2019-10-09 00:00:002019-10-09 00:00:00Europe/LondonLab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics 2019: Companies, Emerging Technologies and Commercialization Track "B"SELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
Add to Calendar ▼2019-10-09 08:00:002019-10-09 09:00:00Europe/LondonEntrepreneurial Research: Tools and Techniques for Creative, Efficient Microfluidic Research Spanning Electrophoresis, Flow Control, and Real-Time Particle Image AnalysisSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
