Microfluidics as an enabling technology for POC – where are we today?
Holger Becker, PhD, Microfluidic ChipShop
February 10, 2015 6 pm (Food starting at 5:30 pm)
Blum Hall B100
25 years after the introduction of the concept of the “miniaturized total chemical analysis system (µTAS)” and about 15 years after the gold digger`s frenzy about how this technology would revolutionize all aspects of chemical, biochemical or diagnostic analyses, it is worth to have a look how his technology has matured. For practically all new diagnostic kits, microfluidics plays an important enabling role. The ability to integrate complete diagnostic assays on a single device is hereby the decisive advantage which is reflected in the dramatically growing number of microfluidics-enabled products in the diagnostic market. It is my firm belief that we see a significant part of the early day’s promises being fulfilled and a rapidly growing range of applications and products. A review on roadblocks as well as success factors for the commercialization of microfluidic devices will be given as well as an overview on commercially available manufacturing routes with their specific application to diagnostics. Several examples of products and their development characteristics will be presented.
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Dr Holger Becker is co-founder and CSO of microfluidic ChipShop GmbH. He obtained physics degrees from the University of Western Australia/Perth and the University of Heidelberg. He started to work on miniaturized systems for chemical analysis during his PhD thesis at Heidelberg University, where he obtained his PhD in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 he was a Research Associate at Imperial College with Prof. Andreas Manz. In 1998 he joined Jenoptik Mikrotechnik GmbH. Since then, he founded and led several companies in the field of microsystem technologies in medicine and the life sciences. He lead the Industry Group of the German Physical Society between 2004 and 2009, has been the chair of the SPIE ‘‘Microfluidics, BioMEMS and Medical Microsystems’’ conference since 2009 and was co-chair of MicroTAS 2013. He serves on the Editorial Board of “Lab-on-a-Chip” and “Physik-Journal” as well as acting as a regular reviewer of project proposals on a national and international level.
Holger Becker, PhD, Microfluidic ChipShop
February 10, 2015 6 pm (Food starting at 5:30 pm)
Blum Hall B100
25 years after the introduction of the concept of the “miniaturized total chemical analysis system (µTAS)” and about 15 years after the gold digger`s frenzy about how this technology would revolutionize all aspects of chemical, biochemical or diagnostic analyses, it is worth to have a look how his technology has matured. For practically all new diagnostic kits, microfluidics plays an important enabling role. The ability to integrate complete diagnostic assays on a single device is hereby the decisive advantage which is reflected in the dramatically growing number of microfluidics-enabled products in the diagnostic market. It is my firm belief that we see a significant part of the early day’s promises being fulfilled and a rapidly growing range of applications and products. A review on roadblocks as well as success factors for the commercialization of microfluidic devices will be given as well as an overview on commercially available manufacturing routes with their specific application to diagnostics. Several examples of products and their development characteristics will be presented.
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Dr Holger Becker is co-founder and CSO of microfluidic ChipShop GmbH. He obtained physics degrees from the University of Western Australia/Perth and the University of Heidelberg. He started to work on miniaturized systems for chemical analysis during his PhD thesis at Heidelberg University, where he obtained his PhD in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 he was a Research Associate at Imperial College with Prof. Andreas Manz. In 1998 he joined Jenoptik Mikrotechnik GmbH. Since then, he founded and led several companies in the field of microsystem technologies in medicine and the life sciences. He lead the Industry Group of the German Physical Society between 2004 and 2009, has been the chair of the SPIE ‘‘Microfluidics, BioMEMS and Medical Microsystems’’ conference since 2009 and was co-chair of MicroTAS 2013. He serves on the Editorial Board of “Lab-on-a-Chip” and “Physik-Journal” as well as acting as a regular reviewer of project proposals on a national and international level.
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