Eon Soo Lee, an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and director of NJIT's Advanced Energy Systems and Microdevices Laboratory, gave a presentation on his micro biochip research at the NIH-IEEE 2015 Strategic Conference on Healthcare Innovation and Point-of-Care Technologies for Precision Medicine (HI-POCT15) held on Nov 9-10, 2015 at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, MD.
Lee focuses on the development of an innovative micro biochip for new sensing technology and the implementation of the technology on his microchip using microfluidics science and nanofabrication technology for disease detection and diagnosis. He showed this research would have a huge potential to be extensively adapted for new paradigm of disease detection and diagnosis in every field of clinical and non-clinical applications, even though his paper “Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis using Micro Biochip" is initially discussed on ovarian cancer detection at early stage of cancer development.
“Currently we always need to go to doctor when we want to know if there is something wrong in our body. But, using this microchip, we can easily check our body condition at home and only when the chip shows something wrong in our body, we can go to doctor to get a precision medication. This is not only for detection of diseases when we have a symptom but also for regular checkup by ourselves at home promptly at ease,” Lee said.
He and his doctoral student, Bharath Nunna, a co-author of his paper, have applied to patent their technologies.