Ideas and Innovation

Microfluidics/Microneedles for diagnostic, microsampling and biosensing and drug delivery applications

The quest for affordable diagnostics has been major thrust in the bioengineering and clinical domain. The advent of domain of microfluidics have shown a great promise in developing highly sensitive, accurate and minimally invasive diagnostic solutions. However, the major road block is the design and manufacturing of these microfluidics based biosensors in an affordable manner. We work on the fundamental and applied aspect of driving bio-fluid through a porous materials, immobilization of bio-elements through surface modifications and detection of the required analytes and use of electronics to capture signal.  

Current Projects:

1) Microneedles for Biosensing, sampling and drug delivery applications  2) Paper Microfluidics for diagnostic application 3) human movement detection system

Micro/nanodevices for life-sciences and biomedical applications

Developing a tissue models have been seen as an alternative to animal trials for drug/medical device development. These tissue models can also serve as an alternative to understand the physiology and pathophysiology of a given tissue. We propose the combination of different micro/nanofabrication technology to design and develop biomimetic, multi-scale, multi-material, 3D tissue specific scaffolds/ devices/structures that can accelerate the developments in tissue engineering and fundamental understanding of tissue biology. 

Current Projects:

1) Microengineered eye-on-chip model for drug screening applications 2) Engineering a bio-artificial skin model for cosmetic drug screening 3) Tumoroid model for chemo-drug screening