나노바이오공학 연구실

NanoBiotech Laboratory (NBL) has been interested in developing novel microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip devices as a new platform for biological sample processing, separation, and detection. Microfluidics is a key technology for the realization of micro total analysis systems (μTAS) and lab-on-a-chip in the areas of drug discovery, medical diagnostics, and tissue engineering due to several advantages such as precise fluid handling, low reagent consumption and potentially massive parallelization of experiments. In particular, microfluidic cell culture allows control of fluid flow on the micrometer-scale on the basis of diffusion transport and provides more in vivo-like environments for organ function-on-a-chip. Our recent development of microfluidic analytical technologies includes optoelectrofluidics, hydrophoretic separations, magnetophoretic assays, and microfluidic immunohistochemistry. Currently, we are focusing on the practical aspects of microfluidic diagnostic devices and multicellular 3D assay platforms. Since June 2008, his laboratory has been selected to receive a National Leading Research Laboratory Program grant through the National Research Foundation of Korea, funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT.