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January 2025: Dorothy Mims has completed her rotation and joined our lab as a PhD student working on point-of-care tests for HIV drug resistance screening. Welcome Dot!
January 2025: Sarina Barnes and Justus Brown joined our lab as Master’s of Applied Bioengineering students doing research in the lab. Welcome to the team!
October 2024: We went to MicroTAS 2024 in Montreal! Aileen Sun , Carrie Lin , Cosette Craig, and Kelsey Leong all presented posters. Kelsey was also one of the facilitators of the Frugal Diagnostics: Science Equity for Global Health workshop.

Left to Right: Ayo, Aileen, Megan, Carrie, Cosette, and Kelsey meet Chip the koala, the mascot for MicroTAS 2025.

Left to Right: Ayo, Aileen, Megan, Carrie, Cosette, and Kelsey meet Chip the koala, the mascot for MicroTAS 2025.

Kelsey stands by her poster on CandyCollect: Open-to-Closed (O2C) Microfluidic System for Rapid and User-Center Detection of Group A Streptococcus

October 2024: Cara Brainerd defended her PhD thesis: Towards Rapid Measurement of Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors in a Portable, Low-Cost Platform We were blown away by her storytelling and data on technology that could have real-world impact in HIV treatment and prevention. Congratulations Cara! This is a big milestone for you and the lab! 🎉

October 2024: Our manuscript, Democratizing Access to Microfluidics: Rapid Prototyping of Open Microchannels with Low-Cost LCD 3D Printers, was published in ACS Omega. Congratulations to Kelsey Leong and all our co-authors.

October 2024: Our manuscript, REverse transcriptase ACTivity (REACT) assay for point-of-care measurement of established and emerging antiretrovirals for HIV treatment and prevention, was published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) and featured in “ABC Highlights: authored by Rising Stars & Top Experts”. Congratulations to Cara Brainerd and all our co-authors and collaborators.

September 2024: Megan Chang received a training grant from the Northwest Comprehensive Research Training Program for Kidney, Urology, and Hematology Research (NCOR-KUH). Congratulations Megan!

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September 2024: We received an Acceleration Award from the Institute for Translational Health Sciences to support our work moving microfluidic devices from the lab to remote settings.

ITHS Announces Winners of Pilot Funding to Accelerate Translational Science - ITHS
September 2024: Charlotte Ahls , Clayton Ellington , and Dorothy Mims joined our lab as Bioengineering PhD Rotation Students. Welcome to the team! 🦠🔬🧬
September 2024: Sofia Solari joined our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Sofia. 🧬🥼🔬
August 2024: We posted a preprint describing our work on a rapid test for measuring non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors used for HIV treatment and prevention.