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SUMMARY:Microfluidics for Medicine
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Xingyu Jiang\, National Center for Nanoscience and Techn
 ology\, Beijing (China)\nBIOENGINEERING SEMINAR\n\nAbstract:\nMicrofluidic
 s represent an appealing platform for biochemical assays and discovery of 
 new therapeutics (such as medical implants and drugs). We demonstrate that
  microfluidics can dramatically improve the efficiency of these assays and
  screens. Driven by miniaturization and surface chemistry\, microscale-chi
 ps allow the assays of clinically important biomarkers such as proteins\, 
 nucleic acids and cells\, with improved throughput\, sensitivity and stabi
 lity. Combined with nanoparticles and nanomaterials\, microfluidics show g
 reat promise in developing novel assays and realizing point-of-care testin
 g. These platforms are also extraordinarily useful for screening of therap
 eutics\, e.g.\, nanocarriers for introducing siRNA\, CRISPR/Cas\, and so f
 orth.\n\nBio:\nXingyu Jiang is a Chair Professor at the Southern Universit
 y of Science and Technology\, Shenzhen\, China. He obtained his BS at the 
 University of Chicago (1999) and PhD at Harvard University (with Prof. Geo
 rge Whitesides\, 2004). In 2005\, he joined the National Center for NanoSc
 ience and Technology and the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
 . He joined the Southern University of Science and Technology in 2018. His
  research interests include microfluidics and nanomedicine. He was awarded
  the “Hundred Talents Plan” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences\, the N
 ational Science Foundation of China’s Distinguished Young Scholars Award
 \, the Scopus Young Researcher Gold Award\, the Human Frontier Science Pro
 gram Young Investigator Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chem
 istry\, an associate editor of Nanoscale (Royal Society of Chemistry\, UK)
 .\n\n 
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