Overview

Our lab, offers quality research, training, consultancy, and contract R&D in the area of Microfluidics & lab-on-chip. Research Themes Examples: • Manufacturing of Polymer (e.g., PLGA) & Lipid-based (e.g., Liposomes, Solid Lipid Nanoparticles, Niosomes, Exosomes) Nanomedicines by microfluidics and comparison with traditional formulation methods (e.g., extrusion, thin-film hydration, high pressure homogenization). • Manufacturing of Nanoparticles for imaging, treatment and targeting; including surface modification for cancer treatment and targeting. • Encapsulation of new or currently available drugs & biologics, including the encapsulation of therapeutic nucleic acids (e.g., microRNA, siRNA). • Microfluidics for drug discovery and development. • Microfluidic devices for precise drug delivery. • Microfluidics for point-of-care (PoC) diagnostic devices. • In-house fabrication of microfluidic chips by: 3D Printing & Bioprinting, and injection molding. Studies include: conceptualization, formulation of nanomedicines, manufacturing of chips by 3D printing & Bioprinting technologies, advanced physicochemical characterization, computational modelling (e.g., Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)), in vivo, ex vivo, and in vitro evaluation. Our Lab, has been recognized as world leaders in Microfluidics. PubMed-based algorithms placed us in the top 0.07% of scholars in the world writing about Microfluidics, over the past 10 years. The lab is a Sustainable Lab and has received the Sustainable Lab Awards Silver S-Lab & is engaged in the pilot lab sustainability program LEAF.