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We develop micro/nanoengineering devices to improve current practices for pathogen diagnosis, personalized treatments, and drug screening.

Latest news

  • Advanced Science (8/21/26)

Sabita's paper on "Artificial Intelligence‐Empowered Single‐Cell Phenotyping for Rapid, Automated Pathogen Diagnostics" has been published in Advanced Science. This work presents an integrated diagnostic platform that combines microfluidic single-cell bacterial detection with artificial intelligence-driven analysis for rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Check it out hereCongradulations!

  • NIH award (8/26)

Our lab has received an NIH/NIAID R15 award to develop an integrated microfluidic–AI platform for bacteremia detection and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Thanks for this support.

  • Dibora Sintayehu Tito (8/26) 

Dibora joined our group as a PhD candidate. Welcome!

  • Master defense (7/28/26)

Bushra defended her Master's thesis on "CRISPR-Based Point-of-Care HIV-1 RNA Detection Using a Microfluidic Platform." Great job, and congradulations!  We hope you the best of luck in your career!

  • Master defense (7/23/26)

Sabita defended her Master's thesis on "Single-Cell Phenotyping for Efficient Pathogen Diagnostics Using Artificial Neural Networks."​ Great job, and congradulations!  We hope you the best of luck in your career!

  • Graduation (5/9/26)

Bushra and Anadil are graduating with a Master's degree from our lab. Congradulations, and all the best in the future!

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