For four weeks in July 2008, the CIMIT Forum Summer Education Series offered attendees the opportunity to build an understanding of emerging microfluidic and microsystems technologies that are poised to revolutionize the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries and significantly change the way medicine is practiced. Central to this burgeoning transformation is the ability to create large numbers of microscopic features at the same length scale of biological structures, using photolithography, etching, and deposition techniques. Equally important is the ability of microsystems to create integrated sensors for quantitative analysis of cells and precise physiological measurements.

DATE	TITLE	SPEAKERS
July 8, 2008	Micro/Nanofluidic Tools for Molecular Analysis and Diagnosis Microscale Manipulation of Cells and Their Environment for Cell Sorting and Stem Cell Biology	Jongyoon Han, PhD: MIT Joel Voldman, PhD: MIT
July 15, 2008	Integrated Silicon Micro-fluidic Devices for Detection of Bacteria Microfluidic CD4 Cell Counting for Resource-Limited Settings	Rashid Bashir, PhD: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign William Rodriguez, MD: MGH
July 22, 2008	High-throughput On-chip Small-animal Screening for in vivo Genetic/compound Discoveries Microfluidic Gels For Microvascular Tissue Engineering	Mehmet Fatih Yanik, PhD: MIT Joe Tien, PhD: Boston University
July 29, 2008	Hierarchical Design of Heart Muscle Microtools for Probing into Cell Motility	Kit Parker, PhD: Harvard Daniel Irmia, PhD: MGH, HMS

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