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News

November 2025: Dr. ****Olanrewaju ****was featured in the Biomedical Engineering Society’s Office Hours podcast. He talked about the lab’s work, motivations, and broader research vision.
September 2025: We received an NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. We are grateful for this generous support for our lab to develop self-powered and self-regulated microfluidics to streamline sample preparation in miniaturized mass spectrometry systems.

August 2025: Our manuscript CandyCollect open-to-closed (O2C) microfluidic system for rapid and user-centric detection of group A *Streptococcus* was published in Lab on a Chip!

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August 2025: Kelsey Leong received an Institute for Translational Health Sciences TL-1 predoctoral award. Congratulations Kelsey!

August 2025: Cosette Craig defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations Cosette!
July 2025: We received an ITHS Early Stage Product Development Award for our collaborative work on the CandyCollect Open to Closed (O2C) Microfluidic system for Rapid and User-Centric Detection of Group A Streptococcus with Dr. Ashleigh Theberge and Dr. Erwin Berthier.
June 2025: Dr. Megan Chang has accepted a new position at Roche Diagnostics! We wish you all the best in this exciting new step in your translational research career, Megan.
June 2025: We celebrate our graduates: Annie Qiu, Caitlyn Kwong, Diya Rekhi, George Tang, Justus Brown, Mark Fernandez, Sarina Barnes, Zoe Blumenkranz. We are so grateful for all the dedication and joy you brought to your time with us. We are so excited to see what you will do next.
June 2025: Makalya Wilson completed her rotation and joined our lab as a PhD student expanding our portfolio of enzyme activity assays for disease and treatment monitoring into prostate cancer screening and tuberculosis therapeutic drug monitoring. Welcome Makayla!
May 2025: Cosette Craig passed her PhD general exam. Congratulations Cosette!
May 2025: Senior undergraduates Zoe Blumenkranz and Mark Fernandez presented their project Optimizing Surface Properties and Gepmetries for Capillary Microfluidic Devices Produced on LCD 3D Printers at the annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium.