In partnership with our new sponsor ALine Inc, we are thrilled to announce that Professor Jiashu Sun from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China, has won the 2024 Lab on a Chip & ALine Inc Pioneers of Miniaturization Lectureship!
The Sun lab leverages interdisciplinary tools, including microfluidics, functional DNA materials, and machine learning, to develop low-cost, point-of-care, ultrasensitive assays for liquid biopsy. The lab has engineered a viscoelastic microfluidic platform for label-free, high-resolution isolation of circulating tumor cells and extracellular vesicles. Additionally, a thermophoretic microfluidic platform combined with functional DNA materials has been devised to directly profile proteins, nucleic acids, and glycans associated with extracellular vesicles in blood samples. The molecular signature of EVs provides valuable information for early diagnosis, classification, therapeutic monitoring, and prognosis of various cancers. The lab is committed to translating microfluidic research into practical applications that deliver real clinical impact.
Jiashu received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University in 2010 under the mentorship of Prof. Deyu Li. She joined the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China as an Assistant Professor in 2011 and has been a Professor/Principal Investigator since 2016.
Thanks to this recent achievement, Jiashu is set to present at microTAS 2024 at 09:15 – 09:35 ET on Tuesday, 15 October on the topic of microfluidics for separation and molecular profiling of extracellular vesicles. Be sure not to miss her talk!
Read some of Jiashu Sun’s Lab on a Chip papers:
Hydraulic-electric analogy for design and operation of microfluidic systems
