Join us with I. Emre Araci, PhD on Thursday, August 12 at 5:00pm (PDT)
Wearable technologies have the potential to transform healthcare by providing continuous measurements of physiological parameters. Sensors that passively monitor physiological pressure without using electronic components are ideal as contact lens type devices because they are easy to interface with the cornea and the external environment. In our group, we developed a passive integrated microfluidic sensor with a novel transduction mechanism that converts small strain changes to a large fluidic volume expansion, detectable by a smartphone camera to monitor intraocular pressure for the management of glaucoma. In this presentation, I will talk about the recent advances in microfluidic biosensors and their potential as a physical rehabilitation management tool.
I. Emre Araci, PhD
I. Emre Araci, PhD received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Electrical Engineering Department at Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. He then received his Ph.D. from the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona in 2010. Following that, he joined Prof. Stephen Quake's group in the Bioengineering Department at Stanford University as a postdoctoral associate. There, he designed and fabricated the world's smallest electromechanical valves for microfluidic VLSI. This technology has since led to many continuing studies involving the automation of biological experiments in a microfluidic chip. In 2014, his work on implantable and miniaturized devices for telemedicine was published in Nature Medicine and featured in various media platforms including Fortune Magazine and ABC7. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Bioengineering Department at Santa Clara University, where he has worked since 2015. He is a 2021 recipient of the NSF CAREER award as well as the co-founder of Smartlens, a company developing contact lens devices for glaucoma management. His current primary research goals are directed toward the development and application of wearable micro/optofluidic technologies for physical rehabilitation.
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