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Ontjes Honors Opportunity Fund Supports of Summer Work of Undergraduate Students
During the summer of 2019, we hosted two Honors Undergraduate Students supported by Dr. Joan Ontjes, wife of the late Dr. David A. Ontjes, MD, via the "David A. Ontjes Honors Opportunity Fund". We really appreciate the kind support from Joan. The students really enjoy this opportunity to do research...
Grad Student Receives Grant to Participate at ACS National Meeting
Graduate student Thilanga Pahattuge, from KU’s Soper Research Group, received a $1000 travel award from the Hall Travel Grant to participate in the ACS Fall 2019 National Meeting, August 25-29 in San Diego, CA. Thilanga will be giving a poster presentation titled “Photocleavable linker for the release of rare cancer...
Liquid Biopsy and its Evolving Role in Precision Medicine – an Interview with Prof. Steven Soper
In the Soper lab, researchers are developing microfluidic devices out of plastics for the analysis of liquid biopsy markers. They hope that the plastic format will allow for high-scale production at low cost to enable implementation into the clinic. On behalf of Diagnostics World News, Emily Le, a conference producer...
Prof. Park's 2019 Invited Talks at Universities, Institutions and Companies
Professor Sunggook Park traveled internationally in 2019 to give the following invited talks at universities, institutions or companies. Dr. Park spoke at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand on May 17, 2019, in a lecture titled “Plastic Nanofluidic Devices for Single Molecule Sensing.” He also gave a talk titled “Modular Micro/Nanofluidic...
Prof. Park Gives Talk at NanoKorea 2019
Prof. Sunggook Park Gives Invited Talk at NanoKorea 2019...
Soper Presents at SelectBio LOAC & Microfluidics Europe 2019
KU Prof. Steven A. Soper traveled to Europe to give a keynote presentation at the SelectBio Lab-On-A-Chip & Microfluidics EUROPE 2019 conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 18-19, 2019. ...
Professors Elected to AIMBE College of Fellows
Two University of Kansas professors have been named fellows in an organization of the nation’s top medical and biological engineering researchers. ...
Two members of the CBM2 team participated in the March 17-21 PITTCON 2019 in Philadelphia, PA.
Two members of the CBM² team participated in the March 17-21 PITTCON 2019 in Philadelphia, PA. ...
CBM2 Participates in Engineering Expo at KU February 25, 2019
The University of Kansas School of Engineering organized an annual event (the Engineering Expo) that gathered 3,000 registered K-12 participants! This year's idea was “Creating the Future”. Engineering Expo is a free multi-day, student-run event that lets visitors explore the fields of engineering including bioengineering, and demonstrates projects tackled and...
Matt Jackson Presents at Junior High Career Fair
Dr. Matt Jackson, a post-doc in the Soper research group at KU, participated in a career fair for middle school students at Baldwin Junior High School in Baldwin City, Kansas on January 16, 2019. Matt presented career opportunities and pathways in chemistry, spanning government, academia, and throughout the chemical industries,...
Soper Inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows
Steven Soper, PhD, member of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. The AIMBE College of Fellows represents the top 2 percent of the medical and biological engineering community. There are about 2,000 members globally. ...
CBM2 Participates in Carnival of Chemistry, November 2018
The Department of Chemistry and the KU Chemistry Club hosted the Carnival of Chemistry on November 18, 2018. CBM2 participated in the event. The event, now in its 20th year, includes about a dozen activities or interactive exhibits for children in kindergarten through eighth grade and their families. Kids can...
Murphy Research Group Presents at IMECE
Members of the Murphy Research Group at LSU traveled to Pittsburgh, PA in November 2018 to present at the 2018 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE):...
Dr. Soper to Give Distinguished Professor Lecture
University Foundation Distinguished Professor Steven Soper will present “The War Against Cancer: The Role of Engineers and Scientists” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, in the Summerfield Room of the Adams Alumni Center. All are invited to attend the talk, which is Soper’s inaugural distinguished professor lecture. A reception will...
Prof. Soper gives talk at Next Generation Dx Summit
Prof. Steven A. Soper presented a talk August 20, 2018 at the Next Generation Dx Summit in Washington, DC. His talk was titled, “New Tools for Liquid Biopsies: Microfluidics for the Efficient Isolation of Circulating Leukemia and Myeloma Cells.” In his talk, he discussed his group’s work in negating the...
CBM2 Members attend Gordon Research Conference
Three members of the CBM 2 team attended the Liquid Biopsy for Cancer: Circulating Tumor Cells, ctDNA and Extracellular Vesicles session of the Gordon Research Conference, August 5–10, 2018 at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. Prof. Steven Soper gave a talk titled “Microfluidics for the Isolation and Analysis of Liquid...
KU Hosts ”How to Make It and Use It” Microfluidic Workshop 2018
The third annual “How to Make It and Use It” Microfluidic Workshop, presented by the Center of BioModular Multiscale Systems for Precision Medicine, was hosted this year at the University of Kansas August 1-3, 2018. Twenty participants came to KU from Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma to learn how...
New Science Facilities Usher in New Era, Learning Opportunities
The Integrated Science Building at the University of Kansas will be a boon to faculty and students in the School of Engineering, officials say — and serve as a crown jewel that attracts innovators and collaborators from the Midwest and beyond. ...
Steven Soper Gives Talk at University of Notre Dame
“New Tools for Liquid Biopsies: Microfluidic Platforms for the Efficient Isolation and Molecular Profiling of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs), Cell Free DNA (cfDNA) and Nanovesicles (Exosomes)” is the title of the talk that Prof. Steven Soper gave on Monday, July 23, 2018 in South Bend, IN. Soper was one of...
Visiting Researchers from Korea
Ms. So Hyun Kim and Ms. Jiae Sur are visiting the US and doing research in the laboratory of Prof. Steven A. Soper. So Hyun and Jiae are from South Korea and are undergraduates at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). UNIST, which was founded in 2009, is...
Center Director Steve Soper Gives Two Talks on Blood-based Biomarkers
Prof. Steve Soper, director of CBM2, presented “Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) and Cell Free DNA (cfDNA) as Blood-based Biomarkers: Plastic-based Microfluidics for their Enrichment and Analysis” at two Select Biosciences conferences. The first of two talks was May 28, 2018 in Boston at the Circulating Biomarkers World Congress 2018. The second...
Shimadzu Visit Photos - May 18, 2018
Dr. Teruhisa Ueda, President and CEO of the Shimadzu Corporation, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of scientific instrumentation, visited the KU Chemistry Department on Saturday, May 18, 2019. Ueda was celebrated with an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the KU commencement ceremony May 19th, for notable contributions to...
Students from Soper group participate in Undergraduate Research Symposium
The annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at KU celebrates the diversity of undergraduate research and creative activities on campus. Two undergraduate students from the Soper research group, Shalee Mog and Breanna Diaz, presented a poster on Microfluidic-based Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells at the April 28, 2018 symposium. ...
Dr. Soper presents at Nortre Dame
“New Tools for Liquid Biopsies: Microfluidic Platforms for the Efficient Isolation and Molecular Profiling of Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs), Cell Free DNA (cfDNA) and Nanovesicles (Exosomes)” is the title of the talk that Prof. Steven Soper gave on Monday, July 23, 2018 in South Bend, IN. Soper was one of...