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SELECTBIO Conferences Circulating Biomarkers World Congress 2020

Steve Soper's Biography



Steve Soper, Foundation Distinguished Professor, Director, Center of BioModular Multi-Scale System for Precision Medicine, The University of Kansas

Prof. Soper is currently a Foundation Distinguished Professor in Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. Prof. Soper also holds an appointment at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in Ulsan, South Korea, where he is a World Class University Professor. He is also serving as a Science Advisor for a number of major worldwide companies. Prof. Soper is currently on the Editorial Board for Scientific Reports and Journal of Micro- and Nanosystems.

As a result of his efforts, Prof. Soper has secured extramural funding totaling >$103M and has published over 265 peer-reviewed manuscripts (h index = 71) and is the author of 20 patents. He is also the founder of a startup company, BioFluidica, which is marketing devices for the isolation and enumeration of circulating tumor cells. His list of awards includes Chemical Instrumentation by the American Chemical Society, the Benedetti-Pichler Award for Microchemistry, Fellow of the AAAS, Fellow of Applied Spectroscopy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, R&D 100 Award, Distinguished Masters Award at LSU and Outstanding Scientist/Engineer in the state of Louisiana in 2001. Finally, Prof. Soper has granted 60 PhDs and 6 MS degrees to students under his mentorship. He currently heads a group of 20 researchers.

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Integrated Microfluidic Systems for the Efficient Isolation of Circulating Leukemia Cells and Circulating Plasma Cells

Tuesday, 18 February 2020 at 15:30

Add to Calendar ▼2020-02-18 15:30:002020-02-18 16:30:00Europe/LondonIntegrated Microfluidic Systems for the Efficient Isolation of Circulating Leukemia Cells and Circulating Plasma CellsCirculating Biomarkers World Congress 2020 in Coronado Island, CaliforniaCoronado Island, CaliforniaSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

Liquid biopsies are generating great interest within the biomedical community due to the simplicity for securing important biomarkers to manage complex diseases. We are developing a suite of microfluidic devices that can process whole blood directly and engineered to efficiently search for a variety of disease-associated liquid biopsy markers and their subsequent molecular analysis. One microfluidic device can isolate targets with recovery >90% and high purity (>80%) to enable downstream analysis of the particular biomarker without requiring single cell picking. We have also developed a microfluidic device for imaging single cells. The aforementioned microfluidic devices can be interfaced to a fluidic motherboard to allow for full process automation, including cell selection from blood and then, immunophenotyping and/or FISH of the isolated cells. In this presentation, information will be shared on the operational parameters of these devices for the selection of liquid biopsy markers, and the downstream molecular information that can be garnered from the isolated markers in acute myeloid / acute lymphoblastic leukemia (circulating leukemia cells) and multiple myeloma (circulating plasma cells). The attractive nature of using liquid biopsy markers for these two diseases is that it circumvents the need for a patient to undergo a painful bone marrow biopsy. Information will be provided as to the use of these liquid biopsy markers to monitor relapse from minimum residual disease, and stage patients for directing therapy.


Add to Calendar ▼2020-02-17 00:00:002020-02-18 00:00:00Europe/LondonCirculating Biomarkers World Congress 2020Circulating Biomarkers World Congress 2020 in Coronado Island, CaliforniaCoronado Island, CaliforniaSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com