Burak Yildirim, a PhD candidate advised by Dr. Onur Tigli at the University of Miami College of Engineering’s (CoE) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the poster prize by Reaction Chemistry and Engineering journal of The Royal Society of Chemistry at the SelectBIO Microfluidics and Flow Chemistry 2019 Conference.
The conference, which is concurrent with Select Biosciences 11th annual Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics World Congress 2019, took place October 7-9, 2019, in Coronado Island, California.
His poster presented a novel platform utilizing high frequency surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices integrated with microfluidics for single-cell precision therapeutics. Burak’s research explores the development of lab-on-a-chip platforms that will integrate novel electronic, acoustic, and magnetic components for comprehensive biophysical studies through cell interrogation. His work is expected to reveal novel microchip technologies along with new cellular level diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in cancer. For this work in general and this award in particular, Dr. Tigli and Burak would like to acknowledge their collaborators and co-authors on this poster Dr. Tan A. Ince and Dr. Corrado Caslini from Department of Pathology and Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute as well as Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. They also would like to acknowledge Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute of University of Miami (BioNIUM) and its Nanofabrication Facility. This research is funded by National Science Foundation.
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