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Abraham
Lee, Ph.D.
Professor,
Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace --------------------------------Engineering
(courtesy appointment)
Professor, Interdisciplinary Materials Science -----------------and
Concentration
Director,
--Micro/Nano
Fluidics Fundamentals -----------------Focus
(MF3) Center
Office
Location:
-----------------Engineering
Tower (ET), Rm.716F
Mailing
Address:
-----------------Biomedical
Engineering Department
-----------------University
of California, Irvine
-----------------3120
Natural Sciences II
-----------------Irvine,
CA 92697-2715
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"At
first, people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be
done, and then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see
it can be done- then it is done, and all the world wonders why it
was not done centuries ago." -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Phone:
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-(949) 824-9691
Email:------
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*
BME
Professor of the Year, 2007, Engineering Student Council |
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Subject Editor for the Journal
of Microelectromechnical Systems
* International Advisory Editorial Board of Lab
on a Chip Journal
* Fellow, American
Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering |
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Professor
Lee’s current research interest is focused on the development
of integrated “digital” micro/nano fluidic chips for the
following applications: point-of-care diagnostics, "smart"
nanomedicine for early detection and treatment, automated cell sorting
based on electrical signatures, tissue engineering and stem cells,
the synthesis of ultra-pure materials, and biosensors to detect environmental
and terrorism threats. Two major “lab on a chip” platforms
that his lab (BioMiNT Lab) is developing are 1. Droplet emulsions
for drug delivery particles and picoliter biochemical reactors, 2.
On-chip field-based microfluidic manipulation by magnetohydrodynamic
(MHD), dielectrophoresis, electrokinetic forces combined with in situ
electrical sensors.
Professor Lee joined UCI from the National Cancer
Institute, where he served as Senior Technology Advisor in the Office
of Technology and Industry Relations (OTIR) (4/2001-12/2001). Specifically,
Dr. Lee was responsible for identifying new opportunities in interagency
collaborations, new strategies to promote technology maturation,
and provide expert advice on promoting technology development within
NIH.
Before joining NCI, Dr. Lee was a program manager at the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (1999-2001) in the Microsystems
Technology Office (MTO). At DARPA, he started the $59M BioFlips
(Bio-Fluidic Chips) Program and was one of three founding program
managers managing the "Fundamental Research at the Bio:Info:Micro
Intersection" program. During this tenure, he gave invited
talks extensively and was instrumental in shaping the nation’s
technical directions in micro-fluidics and BioMEMS.
Before
DARPA, Dr. Lee was group leader for Microstructures in the Electronics
Engineering Technologies Division (EETD) at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory (LLNL). He was also part of the Center for Microtechnology
and a founding investigator in the Medical Technology Program at
LLNL. Dr. Lee received a second Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC)
award in 1999 for excellence in Technology Transfer for his work
on the development of a micro-mechanical release mechanism for the
deployment of embolic coils into brain aneurysms. This technology
has been licensed to two biomedical device companies. In the area
of micro-fluidics, Dr. Lee and his student demonstrated the first
AC magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) micropump for micro total analysis
systems and the technology has also been licensed by a company.
Since his first publication on this technology, several prominent
micro-fluidics researchers have been initiating projects in this
area.
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