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Changing the Way
the World Works |
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Conference
2010 Boston University Saturday, April 10 Boston, MA |
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Global Responsibility and Outreach: The Biomedical
Microdevices and Microenvironments Laboratory (BMML) at Boston University is focused
on the design and engineering of manufacturable, disposable microfluidic
systems for low-cost point-of-care molecular diagnostics. The main
application area of this research is global health. We have invented
technologies to perform on-chip sample preparation for bacterial and viral
targets from several human body fluids including, urine, blood, stool and
nasowash. We are currently working on devices for the detection of
infectious diarrhea, influenza and MRSA.
About the
Speaker: Dr. Catherine Klapperich,
Ph.D. joined the faculty of the Boston University College of Engineering in
2003 where she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of
Mechnical and Biomedical Engineering. She is the director of the
Biomedical Microdevices and Microenvironments Laboratory in the Departments
of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering. She is also a member of the Center
for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at BU. Before coming to Boston, Dr.
Klapperich was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
in the lab of Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi, and was a Senior Research Scientist at
Aclara Biosciences in Mountain View, CA. She earned her Ph.D. in
Mechanical Engineering in 2000 from the University of California, Berkeley;
her M.S. in Engineering from Harvard University and her B.S. in Materials
Science and Engineering at Northwestern. Dr. Klapperich’s research is
focused on engineering disposable microfluidic diagnostic devices that
incorporate on-board sample preparation. She also studies in vitro
tissue models of breast cancer and the cochlea. |
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