Davey recently won a silver medal in the undergraduate section of the National Inventors Hall of Fame’s Collegiate Inventors Competition for his research project, “Early Cancer Diagnosis by the Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells using Drop-based Microfluidics.”

Congratulations, Neil!! Please click here to read more.  Read more about Former summer student Neil Davey won a national prize!

Congratulations, Esther!!

Abstract: Amorphous nanoparticles (a-NPs) have physicochemical properties distinctly different from those of the corresponding bulk crystals; for example, their solubility is much higher. However, many materials have a high propensity to crystallize and are difficult to formulate in an amorphous structure without stabilizers. We fabricated a microfluidic nebulator that can produce amorphous NPs from a wide range of materials, even including pure table salt (NaCl). By using supersonic air flow, the nebulator produces drops that are so small Read more about Esther's paper published in Science!

Members from Weitz lab, Ilke Akartuna, Linas Mazutis, and Anindita Basu, co-developed single cell barcoding technique, and these works have been published in Cell. 

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867415005498

http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(15)00500-0