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Translating Micro\/Nano Engineering Innovations into Clinic<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our lab focuses on the development of new technologies for molecular analysis and biomedical research via advances in micro-and nano-scale sciences. We aim to develop new methods, devices, and systems with unprecedented performance characteristics, such as sensitivity, specificity, resolution (temporal and\/or spatial), multiplexing, and throughput to rectify current technological limitations in the molecular study of diseases. By forging long-term collaborations with medical scientists and physicians across various disciplines (e.g. Oncology, Pathology, Surgery, and Emergency Medicine) and by leveraging our engineering innovations in microfluidics, single-molecule spectroscopy, and functional nanoparticles, we are developing genetic and epigenetic biomarker-based diagnostics, prognostics, and monitoring for cancer and an array of other diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"\"09\/2025 We claimed Johns Hopkins\u2019 Top Performing Large Lab<\/em> honor in the 2025 International Freezer Challenge<\/a><\/strong> by leading the charge toward greener, energy-smart research.<\/p>\n

\"\"03\/2024 Our new antibiotic combination screening platform – RoboDrop – shows promises to identify potent combinations to improve treatments and safeguard the existing antibiotics. Meet RoboDrop, the Superbug Slayer<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"09\/2023 Fan-En Chen and Sixuan Li have been named 2024 Siebel Scholars<\/strong><\/a>. Big congratulations!<\/p>\n

\"\"04\/2023 Our <\/span>paper<\/a><\/strong> on single-particle characterization of payload distribution and capacity of mRNA lipid nanoparticles is among the <\/span>Top 25 Life and Biological Sciences Articles of 2022<\/strong><\/a> of Nature Communications.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Image\"02\/2023 Dr. Li and Dr. Hsieh et al. have recently published an informative review paper “Single-cell pathogen diagnostics for combating antibiotic resistance”<\/a><\/strong> on Nature Reviews Methods Primers.<\/p>\n

\"\"01\/2023 Congratulations to Dr. Wang and 9 outstanding Hopkins faculty members for being elected American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) <\/a><\/strong><\/span>Fellows!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"09\/2022 Molecular Detection Platform Provides New Insights into Gene Medicine Manufacturing<\/strong><\/a> (from JHU HUB). Our collaborative work with Prof. Hai-Quan Mao\u2019s Lab on single-molecule spectroscopy characterizing the payload distribution and capacity of mRNA lipid nanoparticles was published in Nature Communications<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"08\/2022 Dr. Hui Li accepted the Assistant Professor position in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at Southern Illinois University. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

\"\"08\/2022 Our team led by Dr. Wang and Dr. Pisanic has been awarded a 3-year, $1.5M IMAT R33 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a simple and inexpensive blood test that can reliably detect and identify many types of cancers at early stages.<\/p>\n

\"\"09\/2021 Dr. Wang has been named the Louis M. Sardella Professor<\/strong><\/a> in the Whiting School of Engineering. Congrats to Dr. Wang.<\/p>\n

\"\"08\/2021 08\/2021 We are extremely excited and proud that our lab spinoff, Circulomics<\/strong><\/a>, founded by our lab alum Dr. Kelvin Liu, was acquired by Pacific Biosciences<\/strong><\/a>. Congrats to Kelvin and his team.<\/p>\n

\"\"08\/2021 Our team led by Dr. Wang and Dr. Pisanic has been awarded a 5-year, $2.2M R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop a low-cost epigenetic screening assay for early-stage ovarian cancer!<\/p>\n

\"\"08\/2021 Dr. Kuangwen Hsieh is now an assistant research professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering! Great achievement! Congrats!\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"07\/2021 Our lab will present 5 posters and 1 oral at MicroTAS 2021<\/a><\/strong>. Good job, team! Looking forward to excellent presentations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"06\/2021 Dr. Wang is featured in the Summer 2021 issue of JHU Engineering magazine for developing microfluidic technologies to make the world healthier. Read the feature article<\/a><\/strong> here. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!<\/p>\n

\"\"06\/2021 Our lab will present 1 poster at Biosensors 2021<\/strong><\/a>. Looking forward to the excellent presentation!<\/p>\n

\"\"06\/2021 Our lab will present 1 talk and 1 poster at Global Health Workshop 2021<\/a> <\/strong>sponsored by the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS). Looking forward to excellent presentations!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"05\/2021 Our lab will present 3 talks and 2 posters at Transducers 2021<\/strong><\/a>. Looking forward to excellent presentations!<\/p>\n

\"\"05\/2021 Dr. Chrissy O’Keefe won the Johns Hopkins Homewood Postdoc Association’s Elevator Pitch Competition. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

\"\"05\/2021 Dr. Hoan Ngo has joined our lab as a postdoctoral researcher. Dr. Ngo received his Ph.D. from Duke University and will work on translational point-of-care diagnostics for infectious diseases in the lab. Welcome!<\/p>\n

\"\"05\/2021 Johns Hopkins develops a portable device for rapidly diagnosing STIs<\/strong>.<\/a> Our lab has created an inexpensive portable device and cellphone APP to diagnose gonorrhea in less than 15 minutes and determine if a particular strain will respond to frontline antibiotics. Results appear in today\u2019s Science Translational Medicine<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"03\/2021 \u00a0Alex Trick won the Whiting School of Engineering Trainee Research Award at the 2021 DOM\/WSE Research Retreat for his work on a point-of-care magnetofluidic nucleic acid testing platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n

01\/2021 Our digital CRISPR-based detection of SARS-CoV-2, published in Advanced Science, is highlighted by Advanced Science News<\/b>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"9\/2020 Ph.D. student, Fangchi Shao won the C.M. Ho Best Paper Award at the Virtual IEEE-NEMS 2020 conference. <\/b>The award-winning paper is entitled \u201cA Programmable Nanodroplet Device with Direct Sample-to-Droplet Interface toward High-Throughput Screening”. Congratulations!<\/p>\n

9\/2020 Jeff Wang and Colleagues Receive Award to Develop HIV Self-Testing Technology. <\/b><\/a>Jeff Wang and a multi-disciplinary team of researchers were awarded $3 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop a diagnostic device for self-testing HIV viral load.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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