题目：Paper-based ELISA for Detecting Various Diseases

报告人：Chao-Min Cheng

时  间：11月25日（星期日）下午3:00
地  点：校医院A-534会议室
主持人：李长辉（特聘研究员）

报告内容摘要：
    Developing methods to answer specific scientific questions is one of the practical approaches for doing science; optical microscopy, for example, has been a fundamental method of biological or medical discovery for more than three centuries. Building systems or tools to solve current issues existed in the world (e.g., infectious diseases) is also one of the attracting projects that we can involve and contribute. The developing world needs diagnostic devices that have the lowest cost, function without supporting equipment (e.g., electricity, pumps, optics), can be integrated with wireless communication technology for telemedicine, and are portable and easy to operate. Due to this reason, for last few years, we have developed multiple “simple” technologies, which can be used in the developing world. I will talk about what we have done in the Whitesides Research Group at Harvard and what I am working on at National Tsing Hua University, including 3-D paper-based microfluidics, paper-based ELISA for HIV detection as well as paper-based portable device for biochemical analysis.

报告人简介：
    Chao-Min Cheng received his Ph. D. in 2009 from Carnegie Mellon University (Biomedical Engineering Department); he then did his post-doctoral training with Prof. George M. Whitesides at Harvard University to develop paper diagnostic systems for global public health. He is currently an independent P.I. at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, starting from 2011 summer. He has been blessed to receive the Dowd-ICES Fellowship in Carnegie Mellon University, the Traveling Fellowship in Journal of Cell Science, and Distinguished Young Investigator Research Grant from National Science Council in Taiwan. He was also an invited attendee for NAS Sackler Colloquium at the National Academy of Sciences, and research highlighted in the National Academies- Keck Futures Initiative, Scientific American, Chemistry World, and New York Times. His general research interests focus on paper diagnostic systems for public health (including the development of sensing elements), biomedical devices for cellular and molecular biology, and cellular and molecular biomechanics. He is also currently an acting member for International Affairs/Globalization Committee at Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Editorial Board member in Sensor Letters, and Guest Editor in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (with Prof. Ming-Jer Tang at National Cheng Kung University). Not only does he multiple academic services but he also serves as a consultant for point-of-care diagnostics companies around the world.