Yoon-Kyoung Cho,
Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Dean,
UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology)
Yoon-Kyoung Cho is currently a full professor in Biomedical Engineering and the dean of College of Information and Biotechnology at UNIST, Republic of Korea. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK), an associate editor of the journal ‘Lab on a chip’, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and vice president of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS). She earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, following her M.S. and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from POSTECH in 1994 and 1992, respectively. Prior to joining UNIST in 2008, she served as a senior researcher (1999–2008) at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT). Her current research focuses on lab-on-a-chip systems for detecting rare biomarkers, quantitative analysis of cell migration, and systems analysis of intercellular communication. Discover more at http://fruits.unist.ac.kr. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Jc1mz_EAAAAJ&hl=en
Centrifugal Microfluidics for Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 14:00
Add to Calendar ▼2015-09-29 14:00:002015-09-29 15:00:00Europe/LondonCentrifugal Microfluidics for Point-of-Care DiagnosticsLab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics and Microarrays World Congress in San Diego, California, USASan Diego, California, USASELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com
We will discuss our on-going research on “Lab-on-a-disc”, which applies centrifugal force to pump fluid for biological analysis. It is advantageous because of the capability to integrate and automate all the process into a disc-shaped device with simple, size-reduced, and cost-efficient instrumentation. We report various examples of fully integrated "lab-on-a-disc" for the biomedical applications such as rare cell isolation, DNA extraction, enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay (ELISA) starting from whole blood. Integration with microfluidic technology allows more precise control of fluids while also reducing the expensive reagent consumption, the required analysis time and possible handling errors.
