Barry Lutz's Biography

Barry Lutz, Assistant Professor, University Of Washington

Dr. Lutz received his degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington and The University of Texas, and he is currently faculty in Bioengineering at the University of Washington. Broadly, his research aims to exploit simple physical and chemical principles to create new biomedical devices, with attention to the clinical needs and technical constraints important to translation. His work has included early contributions to paper-based diagnostics in collaboration with Paul Yager and Elain Fu, and he is Co-Investigator on projects to create next-generation paper-based devices for point-of-care immunoassays (NIH NIAID) and nucleic acid tests (DARPA, Multiplexable Autonomous Disposable Nucleic Acid Amplification Test – MAD NAAT). His new lab at the University of Washington is turning attention to sophisticated nucleic acid analyses including high-order multiplexed diagnostic test panels, mutation detection, drug resistance, and sequence-based diagnostic analyses. These methods are normally associated with the most sophisticated laboratories; we aim to re-engineer their chemistries to be fast, simple, and robust with a goal to create on-site rapid turn-around tests with high information content for clinical diagnostics.