Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Microfluidics and BioMEMS Laboratory
Led by Z. Hugh Fan · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
What we study
This lab builds tiny lab-on-a-chip devices and sensors that handle fluids for medical and chemical testing, with a focus on cancer diagnosis.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Building & testing
- Cells in a dish
- No coding
- Project
- 1
Current projects
Engineering Microfluidic Devices for Circulating Tumor Cells Isolation
The lab builds tiny fluid channels that can pull out rare cancer cells from blood. Students help design the device, test it with patient samples, and learn how to track cancer spread.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 167
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
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