Sergey Shevkoplyas's Biography

Sergey Shevkoplyas, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston

Dr. Shevkoplyas is a biomedical engineer with core expertise in blood microfluidics. His primary research interests are the development and clinical translation of high-throughput microfluidic devices and single-cell analysis tools in the field of blood storage and transfusion medicine. An additional significant thrust of his research program is the development of enabling technology for low-cost, point-of-care diagnostics in resource-limited settings. Dr. Shevkoplyas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics & Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology, Russia in 2000, and his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 2005. Dr. Shevkoplyas also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University (2005 – 2008), and served on the faculty of Tulane University as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (2008 – 2013). Dr. Shevkoplyas has authored 40 peer-reviewed articles, published two book chapters and is an inventor on 14 U.S. patents and patent applications. His research has been funded by the National Blood Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, U.S. Army and the National Institutes of Health, including the recently awarded 2012 NIH Director's Transformative Research Award (T-R01).