LaB NEWS
November 29, 2023
Novel digital manufacturing of functional ready-to-use microfluidic systems on news
Our recent publication by Vahid Karamzadeh, et al., introducing digital manufacturing of functional ready-to-use microfluidic devices has been featured in news!
July 19, 2023
JUNCKER LAB AND MODERNA TO COLLABORATE ON A NEW PROJECT IN LIPID NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
In collaboration with Moderna, the Juncker lab is undertaking a study to characterize LNPs using a new technique developed by the lab. Featured in news!
May 18, 2022
MICROFLUIDIC CHAIN REACTIONS FEATURED IN NEWS
Our recent publication by Mohamed Yafia and Oriol Ymbern, et al., introducing 3D printed ‘machines’ powered by microfluidic chain reactions has been featured in news!
May 5, 2021
ULTRASOFT BRAIN IMPLANT FEATURED IN NEWS
Our recent publication by Edward Zhang introducing sugar-shuttled mechanically matched brain implants (MMBIs) has been featured in news!
September 19, 2020
DR.JUNCKER GIVES A TALK IN HILLS TIMES HOT ROOM ON COVID-19 RAPID TEST
Dr. Juncker joins The Hot Room to talk rapid saliva tests for COVID-19 and how they could help ahead of a vaccine and use them to identify contagious individuals.
July 22, 2020
DR.JUNCKER GIVES AN E-SEMINAR PRESENTATION ON TRANSLATIONAL BME
In this presentation Dr.Juncker talks about how biomedical engineering research is involved in healthcare and biosciences industry and importance of translational research. He shares his own experience with multiple spin-offs from the lab and talks about both the challenges and satisfactions coming from such experiences.
TOC for the presentation:
A. Role for biomedicalengineering and opportunities for translation and commercialization in healthcare and as researchtools, discussing trade-offs and how to move from one to the other
B. Simplicity is discussed with lab-on-a-chip (mostly complex), and our work on “simple” capillary microfluidics and capillarics. Complex, laborious operations automated using robotics can be done effortlessly on a small capillaric chip without any moving part or peripheral equipment (spin-off Sensoreal Inc.) A 3dprinted CC for saliva-based, rapid test for COVID19 antibody is shown.
C. Scalability: Linking incremental advances to exponential improvements can be transformative, and semiconductors (mooreslaw), and DNAmicroarrays and sequencing, exemplify it, while affinity proteomics not yet. antibody colocalization is introduced as a scalable assay for microarrays (spin-off PARALLEX BioAssays) and on microparticles (spin-off nplex biosciences inc. ). nplex further leverages common workflows and flowcytometry for high^(throughput, content, performance), and low^(cost), user-friendly proteomics
D. Conclusion: insights and lessons learned
July 16, 2020
NPLEX-MCGILL PARTNERSHIP SELECTED BY CQDM FOR A $1M GRANT TO APPLY NEXT-GENERATION ELISA IN DRUG DISCOVERY
McGill University and CQDM announced that a collaborative project between McGill and nplex biosciences to further develop a highly-scalable protein detection method, termed the “nELISA”, has been selected for funding by CQDM. The research team will receive a $1,000,000 grant for one year through the CQDM Quantum Leap program.
June 14, 2019
DR. JUNCKER APPOINTED CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN BIOENGINEERING
As one of the 26 Canada Research Chairs at McGill University, Dr. David Juncker was featured in the McGill Reporter for his appointment as the Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering!
April 4, 2019
DOBSON CUP: HEALTH SCIENCES TRACK 2019 WINNERS
Our lab’s spinoff company nplex biosciences won first prize in the Health Sciences Track of the McGill Dobson Cup!
August 13, 2018
NOVEL BARCODING METHOD FEATURED ON NEWS
Our recent article publication by Dr. Milad Dagher has been featured on the news!
August 9, 2018
FEATURED COVER ON LAB ON A CHIP
Our recent article publication by Dr. Olanrewaju has been featured on the cover of Lab on a Chip!
May 2, 2018
FEATURED COVER ON BIOMICROFLUIDICS
Our recent article publication by Master's graduate Philip Zimny has been featured on the cover of Biomicrofluidics!
January 28, 2018
THE UTI CHIP SHOWCASED ON RADIO-CANADA
Drs. David Juncker and Ayokunle Olanrewaju present a TV special on ICI Radio-Canada Télé showcasing their UTI Chip (At time 10:30 in video).
November 10, 2017
QUEBEC RISING STAR AWARD
Dr. Ayokunle Olanrewaju was awarded an Étudiant Chercheur-Étoiles (Star Student
Researcher) Award for October 2017 by the Fonds de recherche Nature et
technologies Québec. The Award-winning publication was: Microfluidic Capillaric
Circuit for Rapid and Facile Bacteria Detection published in Analytical Chemistry.
October 24, 2017
FIRST PLACE IN MICROTAS SHARK TANK COMPETITION
September 22, 2016
TOP 10 REVIEWERS FOR LAB ON A CHIP
May 13, 2016
Micro and Nano Bioengineering Lab profiled in the McGill Magazine "Medicine Focus"
"The Future of Medicine is Very Small" and "The Scale of Things".
August 19, 2013
Antibody Microarrays for Immunoassays and Nanodot Arrays for Cell Navigation Studies
Our research with the antibody colocalization microarray (ACM) platform was featured in an article by the Centre for Microfluidic Systems in Chemistry and Biology.
ALTERNATIVE TO MAMMOGRAPHY
Our Antibody Colocalization Microarray (ACM) project to detect breast cancer biomarkers in blood was featured online at Le Journal de Quebec (en français).
Screening for disease with a single thread
Our work on thread-based immunoassays for global health applications was featured on Le Code Chastenay science television show (en français). Our novel idea is to use common cotton thread and its capillary-driven wicking property as a fluid carrier to carry out immunoassays for global health applications. This research has lead to several publications including articles in Lab on a Chip and Analytical Chemistry.