About the UCSD Microcirculation Laboratory 

The Microcirculation Laboratory at UC San Diego was founded in 1967 by the late Benjamin W. Zweifach, one of the imminent teachers of Bioengineering and Microcirculation in the twentieth century. In 1979, Geert W. Schmid-Schönbein assumed the directorship of the laboratory.

A premise of the laboratory is that diseases are manifest in the microcirculation years before they become evident at the clinical level. The study of microcirculation is a cornerstone for the integration of molecular, genetic, and cellular phenomena with the dynamics in living tissue and whole organs. Microcirculation is a key to analyzing the origin and progression of disease.