Projects
A LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICE FOR PURE CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL ISOLATION FROM WHOLE BLOOD FOR CANCER THERAPY (pureCTC) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
CTCs are rare cells that originate from tumors, and which travel in the human circulatory system to eventually spread the disease to other organs. Consequently, analysis of CTCs is crucial for ...
Development of a self-powered microfluidic platform for lab-on-a-chip applications KU Leuven
With the constant world population growth and ageing, several medical conditions are becoming a burden both in terms of deaths and cost for the health care system. For this reason, research institutions and biopharma companies all over the world are developing new diagnostic tools which allow early detection of many medical conditions, from cancer to infectious diseases, and monitoring of chronical pathologies. In fact, a timely diagnose is ...
LOCEM: Lab-on-a-chip for cryo-EM Ghent University
General purpose. The overall goal of this project is to develop an optimized prototype of the total lab-on-a-chip for cryo- EM solution: cryo-EM affinity grid plus microfluidic chip. Specifically, a microfluidic chip is being developed which it purification of bioparticles (i.e. proteins) and then loading a cryo-EM affinity grid.
Concrete goals and criteria.
-Optimizing and integrating different microfluidic biomolecule ...
Microreactors in a digital lab-on-a-chip. KU Leuven
Digital microfluidic lab-on-a-chip for biosensor technology and (bio)catalysis. KU Leuven
Lab-on-a-chip for cryo-EM (LOCEM). University of Antwerp
Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC) for forensic STR profiling. Ghent University
Development of a portable, USB powered ‘lab on a chip’ (LoC) to perform rapid forensic DNA profiling, without the current need for sophisticated laboratory instrumentation. The chip will be designed based on Imec’s expertise in silicon microchip development, incorporating all sequential steps of a DNA analysis into a disposable, single-use, closed-loop device.
Innovative mOSTE+ designed digital lab-on-a-chip for manipulation and downstream single cell analysis KU Leuven
Individual cells in a population can substantially differ at the genomic and functional level. Getting further insight into these differences might be a key to answering many of the remaining questions linked to different physiological or pathological processes. Although single cell analysis is rapidly evolving field, the methods are often not amenable to spatio-temporal studies in individual cells in situ and are accompanied by cumbersome ...