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04/2012 Yin and Yang in a Droplet. Yi Zhang’s award winning image was featured on the front cover of Lab Chip. The fluorescence image is described as a snapshot of the mixing of two types of quantum dot solutions inside a sessile droplet driven by a microfluidic magnetic gyromixer. The mixing results in quantum dot streamlines that resemble the ancient Chinese symbol for Yin and Yang.
03/2012 The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Helena Zec has been selected to attend the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting to be held 1-6 July 2012 in in Germany.
03/2012 BioMEMS Lab alumnus Tim Yeh accepting the Assistant Professor position in the Biomedical Engineering Department at UT Austin.
01/2012 ACS Nano Podcast featuring an interview with Dr. Jeff Wang about quantum nanotethers for high-resolution genetic analysis.
02/2012 BioMEMS Lab alumnus Megan Ho receives Sapere Aude Young Elite Researcher Award and will join iNANO at Aarhus University in Denmark.
10/2011 μTAS Art in Science Award. Yi Zhang and Dong Jin Shin (center) receives the 4th annual μTAS Art in Science Award, presented by Michael Gaitan of NIST (left) and Harpal Minhas of LOC/RSC (right).
07/2011 Dr. Wang received a R01 grant of $1.7M from NIH/NCI for the development of multiplexed single-molecule detection platform for analysis of cancer biomarkers.
05/2011 INBT Symposium Poster Award. Yi Zhang received the the 3rd prize for the Best Poster Award in 2011 INBT Symposium.
01/2011 Yi Zhang won the Best Paper Award from the 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (IEEE NEMS 2011).

2010

09/2010 The JHU Gazette: NCI grant launches nanotech cancer center. Faculty members associated with the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology have received a $13.6 million five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to establish a Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE). In CCNE, Dr. Jeff Wang serves as a Project Leader of the project on screening DNA methylation for early cancer diagnostics.
09/2010 The JHU Gazette: Five BME doctoral candidates named 2011 Siebel Scholars. Kelvin Liu, a BME PhD candidate from Wang’s lab, named the 2011 Siebel Scholar. The Siebel Scholars program was established by the Siebel Foundation in 2000 to recognize the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.

08/2010 Yi Zhang, a BME PhD student from Wang’s lab, received an AACR Scholar-in-Training Award sponsored by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).
07/2010 Yi Zhang, a BME Ph.D. student from Wang’s lab, received the Hodson Fellowship sponsored by The Hodson Trust.
06/2010 “Detection of circulating nucleic acids” Kelvin Liu’s paper “Decoding Circulating Nucleic Acids in Human Serum Using Microfluidic Single Molecule Spectroscopy”, JACS 2010, 132, 5793-5798, is highlighted in Research Highlights in the October Issue of Lab Chip.
06/2010 Prof. Jeff Wang serves as a guest editor for a special issue on Transforming Microfluidics into Laboratory Automation for Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation (JALA)
05/2010 Brian Keeley received the Best Poster Award in the 2010 INBT Symposium.

2009

12/2010 “Seeing inside Droplets: Single molecule trapped in tiny droplets can be detected and counted”. Tushar Rane’s paper “Counting single molecule in sub-nanolitre droplets” (Lab Chip 2010, 10,161-63) is highlighted in the December 2009 issue of Highlights in Chemical Technology.
09/2010 The JHU Gazette: Five JohnsHopkins graduate students named Siebel Scholars. Vasudev Bailey, a BME PhD candidate from Wang’s lab, named the 2010 Siebel Scholar. The Siebel Scholars program was established by the Siebel Foundation in 2000 to recognize the most talented students at the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering.

08/2009 Prof. Wang delivered a lecture in 2009 IUTAM Summer School on Mechanics in Microfluidics in Beijing.
08/2010 JHU Gazette: New DNA Test Uses Nanotechnology to Find Early Signs of Cancer. Using tiny crystals called quantum dots, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a highly sensitive test to look for DNA attachments that often are early warning signs of cancer. This test, which detects both the presence and the quantity of certain DNA changes, could alert people who are at risk of developing the disease and could tell doctors how well a particular cancer treatment is working.
07/2009 NIH Nanotech News: Monitoring Cancer Cell Changes With Quantum Dots One of the earliest events that changes a normal cell into a malignant one is known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) hypermethylation, a biochemical alteration that inactivates critical tumor-suppressor genes. A team of investigators at Johns Hopkins University has developed a quantum dot-based method that can quantify DNA methylation in premalignant cells harvested from human patients.
06/2009 The JHU Gazette: Hopkins scientists picked for cancer dream teams. Hopkins for two of five multi-institutional "dream teams" financed by Stand Up to Cancer grants totaling more than $6 million. The grants, established by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, are funded with $73.6 million raised during a simultaneous prime-time broadcast on ABC, CBS and NBC television networks last September.
05/2009 Brian Keeley received Johns Hopkins Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA)
05/2009 Vasudev Bailey received the Best Poster Award in the 2009 INBT Symposium.

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2004

  • Popular Mechanics Magazine, "Chip Moves DNA", August 17, 2004
  • Living Prime Magazine, July 20, 2004
  • R&D Digest, "Microbiosensor Chip Can Move DNA Molecules", May 2004
  • Medical Design Magazine, "Micro Biosensor Detects Disease", April 1, 2004
  • News-Medical.Net, "New microchip manipulates DNA and protein molecules", March 17, 2004
  • Headlines@JHU, Student Builds Micro Biosensor Chip to Move DNA Molecules: Device Could Help Diagnose Illnesses and Detect Biohazards, March 16, 2004
  • REDNOVA, "Molecular Movement Steps Up DNA Research", March 9, 2004
  • The JHU Gazette, March 8, 2004
  • SpaceDaily Magazine, March 17, 2004

2002

  • Small Times, August 2002