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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...
Soper Group Participates in Biomedical Sciences Symposium
Soper Group members participate in 2018 Engineering Expo
Members of the Soper group participated in the 2018 Engineering Expo “The Spirit of Innovation” at the University of Kansas, March 2-3, 2018. Over 2,000 area Elementary and Middle School students attended the Expo to explore the world of engineering and science through demonstrations, hands-on activities, and competitions. Activities at...
Work Published in 360Dx Highlights KU CBM² Work
A recent article published by 360Dx highlights work being done by CBM² researchers titled, “University of Kansas Researchers, BioFluidica Develop Microfluidic-Based Diagnostic for Cancer.”...
Article Features Dr. Soper's Work on Microfluidic Device
An article featuring Dr. Steven Soper’s work on creating a microfluidic device that would capture cell-free DNA, exosomes, and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from liquid biopsy of cancer patients was recently published in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. For more info, please visit “Teasing Out Circulating Tumor DNA”. ...
Article in GEN Features Dr. Soper’s Work on Microfluidic Device
An article featuring Dr. Steven Soper’s work on creating a microfluidic device that would capture cell-free DNA, exosomes, and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from liquid biopsy of cancer patients was recently published in Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN). The article titled, “Teasing Out Circulating Tumor DNA” appeared on the...
Student Takes Second Prize in LSU Three Minute Thesis Competition
Congratulations to Zheng Jia, a Ph.D. candidate of Mechanical Engineering under Professor Sunggook Park. He won the second place prize in the LSU Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition with the presentation entitled “DNA Sequencing by Coin-Size Device”. ...
Soper Group Publishes Paper in Integrative Biology
Prof. Steven A. Soper and Dr. Maggie A. Witek of the University of Kansas recently published a paper in the journal Integrative Biology titled, “Isolation of circulating plasma cells from blood of patients diagnosed with clonal plasma cell disorders using cell selection microfluidics.” It was featured on the front cover...
Soper Group Member Receives Tony B. Academic Travel Award
Kumuditha Ratnayake, post-doctoral researcher from the Soper research group at the University of Kansas, received a Tony B. Academic Travel Award to attend the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 2018 International Conference & Exhibition, February 3-7, 2018 in San Diego, CA. ...
CBM² Researchers Present Work at 2017 microTAS Conference
Several members of CBM² traveled to Savannah, GA to participate in the 2017 microTAS conference October 22-26, 2017. Three post-docs, one graduate student, and Prof. Steven Soper contributed research from the Soper group at the University of Kansas, and one post-doc contributed research from the Park group at Louisiana State...
Soper Group Attends ACS Midwest Regional Meeting
The University of Kansas, in Lawrence, KS, hosted the 2017 Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society October 18-20, 2017. Members of CBM²’s Soper Research Group presented their research via posters, lectures, and our first ever exhibitor booth. The exhibitor booth highlighted the Center’s work in several ways to...
Prof. Steve Soper Speaks at SciX 2017 Conference
Steve Soper, director of CBM², attended the SciX 2017 conference in Reno, NV October 9-12. His talk, “Electrophoretic Separation of Single Molecules using Thermoplastic Nanocolumns: Applications in Single-Molecule Sequencing,” which discussed nanometer-scale capillary electrophoresis for sequencing single DNA and RNA molecules, was part of the RSC Sensors for Cancer Diagnostics...
Steve Soper Participated in SelectBio Conferences in San Diego
Steve Soper traveled to San Diego, CA to take part in the Fifth Annual SelectBio Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Global Health & Emerging Viral Diseases World Congress 2017, October 2-4. He ran a short course workshop on October 2nd titled “Basic Principles in Lab-on-a-Chip (LOAC) Technologies for the Study of Circulating Biomarkers:...
KU and UNC Researchers Report New Blood-based Diagnostic for Cancer
Appearing in the journal, Nature Precision Oncology, Prof. Steven A. Soper and Dr. Maggie Witek from the University of Kansas (KU) along with clinical researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC), report a new liquid biopsy test that searches for circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of cancer...
Steven A. Soper Lecture at the 2017 Aspen Cancer Conference
Steven A. Soper, Director of the Center of Biomodular Multiscale Systems for Precision Medicine (CBM²), presented a lecture titled, “New Tools for Liquid Biopsies to Enable Precision Medicine,” on July 16, 2017, at the Aspen Cancer Conference. Dr. Soper described the development of a suite of novel microfluidic devices that...
Professors Publish Paper in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
The Center recently published a paper in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical titled, “Accurate, predictable, repeatable micro-assembly technology for polymer, microfluidic modules.”...
CBM² Publishes Review Paper on CTC Analysis
Prof. Steven Soper, Director of CBM², published an extensive review paper on microfluidics for the isolation and molecular analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells (DOI: 10.1039/C7CS00016B). Co-authors were Dr. Matt Jackson, Dr. Maggie Witek and Dr. Joyce Kamande. ...
Interview with Dr. Steve Soper on KU Central District Development Project
An interview with Dr. Steven Soper was featured in the KU Central District Summer 2017 Project Update. ...
Chemistry Hosts Alumni Symposium
The KU Chemistry Department hosted an Alumni Symposium May 19-20, 2017 in Lawrence for alumni, faculty, staff and students, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Adams Institute. The two-day event began on Friday, May 19 with a scientific symposium and lunch at the Kansas Union, and was...
2017 Team Meeting and EAC Meeting
CBM² team members from Louisiana State University, Weill Cornell Medical College, and the University of North Carolina traveled to Lawrence, KS to participate in the 2017 all-hands meeting, held on 3/30/17 on the KU campus. The day-long meeting included research update presentations given by graduate students and post-doctoral associates, a...
Provost recognizes Dr. Soper’s Work
Dr. Steven Soper’s work with the Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine was recognized in the March 27, 2017 edition of the Provost’s Strong Ties e-newsletter. ...
Prof. Soper gives presentation at TRI-CON Conference
Center Director, Professor Steve Soper will give a presentation at the TRI-CON Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA, on interrogating DNA damage in CTCs to monitor response to therapy. The technology uses nanofluidic devices emanating from CBM² to stretch DNA and optically read the chemotherapy-induced DNA damage...
Dr. Soper gives keynote at SelectBio World Congress
Dr. Steve Soper gave a keynote speech at the SelectBio World Congress on Circulating Markers, March 20-22, in Boston, MA, for the workshop “New Tools for the Efficient Selection of Liquid Biopsy Markers”. His speech was titled, “New Tools for Liquid Biopsies: Microfluidic Platforms for the Efficient Isolation and Molecular...
Prof. Soper presents at PITTCON
Prof. Steve Soper gave two presentations at PITTCON, March 4-8, 2017 in Chicago, IL titled “New Microfluidic Tools for the Efficient Selection of Circulating Markers used for Managing Cancer-related Diseases,” and “Nanosensors Fabricated in Plastics via NIL for the Detection of Single Molecules.”...