Professors Attinger and Wong Receive Grants
03/08/2007
Professors Daniel Attinger and Chee Wei Wong received two grants in the area of optofluidics. This emerging discipline is about integrating microscopic fluid handling systems and optical sensors to perform fluid handling systems and optical sensors to perform fluid handling and measurements with applications in biology, analytical chemistry, and medical research. Operating frequencies, measurement accuracy, and processing speeds are unprecedented. The ultimate goal of their research is to build microprocessors able to manipulate biological and chemical fluids, in a similar manner as electronic microprocessors manipulate electric signals.
The first grant titled "Integrated microfluidic visualization on a microchip for ultrahigh-throughput low-cost radiation biodosimetry" is in the amount of $100,000 for one year and was received in February 2007, from the Columbia Center for High-Throughput Minimally-Invasive Radiation Biodosimetry.
Professor Sam Sia from the Dpeartment of Biomedical Engineering is a co-PI.
The second grant titled "Optofluidics for next generation of laboratory-on-a-chip" ($270,000 for 3 year period) was awarded by the NSF Hybrid Systems program in March 2007.