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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.”...
Godwin and Soper establishing The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine
Profs. Andrew Godwin (KUMC) and Steven Soper (KU-L) are establishing the Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine, which seeks to generate mentoring and infrastructure support for young researchers (both basic science and clinical) engaged in discovering new markers for managing an array of complex diseases. Disease examples include cystic fibrosis, graft-versus-host...
Prof. Francis Barany named 2016 NAI Fellow
Prof. Francis Barany, whom is part of the Center leadership team, has been named as a 2016 NAI Fellow. Election as a NAI Fellow is the highest distinction given to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating outstanding inventions that have made an impact on...
CBM² Calls KU ‘Home’
The team at CBM² is excited to bring our efforts to The University of Kansas in August 2016. The Center will be based out of the Multidisciplinary Research Building (MRB) in the West District of KU’s Lawrence campus. ...
Dr. Murphy Gives Talk
Dr. Michael Murphy (LSU) gave a talk titled "Toward Repeatable Assembly of Polymer, Modular Multi-scale Fluidic Systems," December 8, 2016 to KU’s Mechanical Engineering department in the ME Conference Room in Learned Hall. ...
Foundation Professors Focus on Green Chemistry, Cancer Research
Two new Foundation Distinguished Professors in the School of Engineering bring a wealth of private- and public-sector expertise and experience that will help KU broaden its teaching and research ambitions. ...
Drs. Keith August and Steven A. Soper Receive Grant from the Midwest Cancer Alliance
Dr. Keith August from Children’s Mercy Hospital and Dr. Steven Soper, Director of CBM², from the University of Kansas, Lawrence received grant funding from the Midwest Cancer Alliance to support a project focused on detecting disease recurrence in pediatric patients being treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, ALL. ...
Prof. Soper Gives Keynote Talks at International Liquid Biopsy Conferences
Prof. Steven Soper, Director of CBM² was an invited Keynote speaker at the SelectBio Exosomes and Liquid Biopsies Asia Conference in Taipei, Taiwan and the Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) Liquid Biopsy Summit in San Francisco, CA. ...
Dr Kaufman presents abstract at the Experimental Biology 2016 Meeting
Dr. David Kaufman presented an abstract at the Experimental Biology 2016 Meeting, April 2-6 in San Diego...
CBM² Developing New Technologies
Cancer patients often must undergo painful surgical biopsies to either diagnose their disease or determine the course of therapy following diagnosis. The Center of BioModular Multiscale Systems for Precision Medicine (CBM²) is developing new technologies that use Liquid Biopsies to make the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring for recurrence for all...