Welcome to the course Lab-On-A-Chip in biomedical applications - 2022.

We start on Monday March 21 at 10.00 in lecture room E:1328 in the E-/D-building. Depending on the Covid-situation we may again have to give the course in a digital format. 

The course will have a focus on microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technology in biomedical applications. We will mix lectures on clinical applications and describe state-of-the-art developments in the corresponding microfluidic settings. The lecture series will highlight how microfluidics and bioanalysis can be combined to create completely new opportunities for medical diagnostics and therapy.

Guest lectures from the medical clinics will describe the standard methods for disease biomarker monitoring and outline the currently used miniaturised bioanalytical techniques in the health care system. This is matched with descriptions of fundamental technologies for handling fluids in micro scale and scaling effects as we present and discuss miniaturized bioanalytical concepts and lab-on-a-chip systems.

Some of the topics in the course are: blood cell analysis, microarray technology, droplet microfluidics, acoustofluidics, point-of-care diagnostics, cell separation, immunoaffinity based analysis, organs-on-a-chip and much more.

The course gives a hands-on experience of some of these techniques in the two lab exercises.