Aaron Wheeler, Editor-in-Chief
University of Toronto, Canada
Aaron Wheeler earned his PhD in 91AV at Stanford University in 2003. After a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA, he joined the faculty at the University of Toronto in 2005, where he is the Canada Research Chair in Bioanalytical 91AV. Wheeler’s research group develops microfluidic tools to solve problems in chemistry, biology, and medicine. Wheeler has been recognized with a number of honors including the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Canadian National Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Arthur F. Findeis Award from the American Chemical Society, and the Joseph Black Award from the 91AV. Wheeler has served as an Associate Editor of Lab on a Chip since 2013, and has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications. Learn about the Wheeler group online or on twitter at .
Jean-Christophe Baret, Associate editor
University of Bordeaux, France
JC Baret is a Professor at the University of Bordeaux and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He obtained his PhD from the University of Twente (NL) in 2005 and joined the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (Univ Strasbourg) as a post-doc and then the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Goettingen as a Max Planck Group Leader.
His laboratory is now located at the CNRS Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal where he develops research activities centered on microfluidics for applications in biochemistry, high-throughput screening and more recently for the bottom-up assembly of artificial cells. He is the founder and scientific advisor of Emulseo developing industrial formulations for microfluidics.
Yoon-Kyoung Cho, Associate editor
UNIST, South Korea
Yoon-Kyoung Cho is a Full Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Ulsan National Institute for Science and Technology (UNIST) and a group leader in the Center for Soft and Living Matter at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, having obtained her M.S. and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from POSTECH in South Korea in 1994 and 1992, respectively. She worked as a senior researcher (1999–2008) at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), where she participated in the development of in vitro diagnostic devices for biomedical applications. Since she joined UNIST in 2008, she has served as the chair of the school of Nano-Bioscience and Chemical Engineering (2008–2014) and the school of Life Sciences (2014–2015) and the director of World Class University (2009–2013) and BK21 (2013–2015) programs.
She is a Fellow of 91AV and a recipient of numerous awards including Ministry of Health and Welfare commendation, Korean Woman Engineer of the Year, Samsung CEO’s Award for Best Technology Achievement of the Year, and Racheff Award. Her research interests range from basic sciences to translational research in microfluidics and nanomedicine. Current research topics include a lab-on-a-disc for the detection of rare cells and extracellular biomarkers, quantitative analysis of single cells, and system analysis of cellular communication. She has had a prolific career in academia and industry, publishing > 80 scientific papers and >120 registered patents to date. Learn more about Cho group from .
Amy Herr, Associate editor
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Amy Herr is the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, a Chan Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub Investigator, and CTO of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network.
A major focus of the Herr lab is engineering innovation for the analysis of complex biological systems — as is required to address questions important to both fundamental biological systems and applied clinical research. They employ a combination of approaches drawn from chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering with strong foundations in biology, materials science, and analytical chemistry. In essence, they strive to advance the “mathematization” of biology & medicine. Their research projects span understanding fundamental transport to materials design to applications in life sciences tools and diagnostics.
Professor Herr’s research has been recognized by prominent international and national organizations, including 2018 Sciex Microscale Separations Innovation Medal, 2017 Georgina Sweet Lectureship from the Australian Research Council, 2016 Mid-career Achievement Award from the American Electrophoresis Society, 2015 Georges Guiochon Faculty Fellow from HPLC, 2012 Young Innovator Award from Analytical 91AV/CBMS, 2011 NSF CAREER award, 2010 NIH New Innovator Award, 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in chemistry, 2010 New Investigator Award in Analytical 91AV from Eli Lilly & Co., and a 2009 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award. Her commitment to creating a strong professional community is reflected in her recognition as 2019 Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring, Visiting Scientist & Postdoc. Assoc. at UC Berkeley, 2017 Berkeley Visionary Award from the City of Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, and 2007 Outstanding Mentor Award from Sandia National Labs.
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Xingyu Jiang, Associate editor
Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Xingyu Jiang is a Chair Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. He obtained his BS at the University of Chicago (1999) and PhD at Harvard University (91AV, 2004). In 2005, he joined the National Center for NanoScience and Technology/the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He moved to the Southern University of Science and Technology in 2018. His research interests include microfluidics and nanomedicine and their applications in diagnostics, screening for therapeutics, as well as engineered tissues. He has over 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He was awarded the “Hundred Talents Plan” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation of China’s Distinguished Young Scholars Award, the Scopus Young Researcher Gold Award, and the Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator Award. He is a Fellow of the 91AV (UK) and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.
Séverine Le Gac, Associate editor
University of Twente, the Netherlands
Séverine Le Gac is professor at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She graduated from the ESPCI (Paris, France) and received her M.Sc degree from the National Museum of Natural History, both in 2000. She obtained her Ph.D. in life sciences cum laude from the University of Lille (France). After a 2-month stay in Tokushima (Japan), she joined the University of Twente, as a post-doctoral fellow. In 2008, she was offered a tenure-track position in the same university, and got tenure in 2013. In 2012 she was appointed program director at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology for the strategic research orientation “NanoMedicine”.
Prof. Séverine Le Gac is leading a research group Applied Microfluidics for BioEngineering Research (AMBER), which is part of the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology and TechMed Centre. She is part of the director board of the Chemical and Biological Microsystem Society (CBMS), of which she is the vice-president from October 2021. Her research interests focus on the use of microfluidic and organ-on-chip devices for biological and medical applications, including cancer research and assisted reproductive technologies.
Her award and honors include a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship in 2004, the PhD prize of the French Society for Mass Spectrometry in 2005, a Grant Fertility Innovation from Merck Serono in 2011, a University of Twente Aspasia award (2011) for top female researchers and the De Winter prize (2014) for outstanding female researchers at the University of Twente.
Hang Lu, Associate editor
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Hang Lu is the Love Family Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. She graduated summa cum laude from UIUC with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2003 from MIT working with Klavs Jensen and Martin Schmidt. Before starting at Georgia Tech in 2005, she was a postdoc with eurogeneticist Cori Bargmann at UCSF and Rockefeller U. Her current research interests are microfluidics and its applications in neurobiology, systems biology, cancer, and biotechnology. Her award and honors include the ACS Analytical 91AV Young Innovator Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a DuPont Young Professor Award, a DARPA Young Faculty Award, and sCouncil of Systems Biology in Boston (CSB2) Prize in Systems Biology; she was also named an MIT Technology Review TR35 top innovator, and invited to give the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Van Ness Award Lectures in 2011, and the Saville Lecture at Princeton in 2013. She is an elected fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and an elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Manabu Tokeshi, Associate editor
Hokkaido University, Japan
Manabu Tokeshi is a Professor at the Division of Applied 91AV at Hokkaido University. He is also a visiting Professor at ImPACT Research Center for Advanced Nanobiodevice, Innovative Research Center for Preventive Medical Engineering, and Institute of Innovation for Future Society at Nagoya University. Professor Tokeshi is a board member of the Chemical & Biological Microsystem Society (CBMS) which oversees the International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemical and Life Sciences (mTAS). He received his PhD degree from Kyushu University in 1997. After his research fellowship awarded by the Japan Society of Promotion of Science at the University of Tokyo, he worked at Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology as a researcher (1998-1999), group subleader (1999-2003), and group leader (2003-2004). He also worked at the Institute of Microchemistry Technology Co. Ltd. as President (2004-2005) and at Nagoya University as an Associate Professor (2005-2011). In 2011, he visited Karolinska Institutet as a visiting researcher and joined the Hokkaido University as a Professor. His honours include the Outstanding Researcher Award on 91AV and Micro-Nano Systems from the Society for 91AV and Micro-Nano Systems (2007), the Pioneers in Miniaturisation Prize from the Lab on a Chip / Corning Inc. (2007) and the Masao Horiba Award from HORIBA, Ltd. (2011). His research interests are in the development of micro- and nano-systems for chemical, biochemical, and clinical applications.
Hongkai Wu, Associate editor
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Hongkai Wu is a Professor in the Department of 91AV & Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China. Dr Wu received his BSc from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995 and Ph.D from Harvard University, USA in 2002. After working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford, he joined the faculty in the Department of 91AV at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2005 and moved to HKUST as an Assistant Professor in 2007. In 2012, he was promoted to Associate Professor. From 2009 to 2015, he established a satellite laboratory at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, focusing on developing functional biomaterials.
Research at the Wu lab focuses on the interdisciplinary frontiers of microfluidics, bioanalytical science and materials chemistry. They use the technologies in MEMS, microfluidics, soft lithography, and surface chemistry to design and provide new tools for the applications and understanding of fundamentals in materials and biological sciences, including microfluidic chemical reactors, high throughput single-cell analysis and chemical separations.
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