Cancer Nanotechnologies for In Vitro Diagnostics: From Cell Manipulation and Molecular Screening to Early Cancer Detection

Translational biomedical engineering plays an important role in assimilating the advancement of nanomaterials and microdevice engineering towards developing innovative tools for medicine, as well as contributing to investigations across the multi-scale biological hierarchy with minimal invasion. Our laboratory is currently developing several biotechnologies exploring scale-dependent physical science and the miniaturization technology towards efficient healthcare.
 
In this talk, I will review our research on (1) rapid blood screening devices for circulating tumor cell detection and analysis, and (2) a quantum-dot-based near-field imaging microchip for cellular microarray screening and molecular-scale energy transfer process measurements. Nano-micro scale science, information, and biomedicine are integrative components of the research that is used with advanced engineering tools to facilitate biomedical studies and to develop point-of-care diagnostics for global health applications.

Speaker: John Zhang, Univ. of Texas at Austin