Current Lab Members

Adam Hatch
PhD Candidate

Email: Hatch.ad@husky.neu.edu

Education

B.S. Chemical Engineering
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Research

The principal goal of my research is to create microfluidic cell separations systems to isolate and/or enrich key cell types for tissue engineering applications. In tissue engineering functional cell types must be enriched prior to seeding onto scaffolds. In cell based approaches to tissue repair and regeneration stem and progenitor cells present in certain types must be isolated and characterized prior to use. The use of microfluidic separation schemes for this application has the following advantages over state of the art methods. First microfluidic techniques are more systematic. Second microfluidic systems are capable of isolating rare cells from heterogeneous suspensions rapidly and inexpensively. Third recent work has established design principles for both size and affinity based separations as well as release techniques for captures cells while retaining function. My project focuses on positive selection capture of EPCs from whole blood samples.

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