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    NEWS
    6/30/10 - Governor
        Bill Ritter announces a Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical
        Research grant for Prof. Neeves and his
        studies of blood coagulation in microfluidic devices.
    12/3/09 - Prof. Neeves has
      been awarded a 4-year $300k grant from the American Heart Association titled "The
        Role of Thrombin Flux on Fibrin Deposition and Clot Stability under Flow". 
    9/22/09 - Prof. Neeves,
      in collaboration with Jorge Di Paola, MD at UC-Denver, has been awarded
      an NIH
      Challenge Grant titled "Use of Microfluidics in Determining Hemostatic
        Phenotypes" for $1 million. 
    8/18/09 - Prof.
      Marr receives a $1.3 million grant from the National Institute of
      Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIH) to develop optical-trapping based
      instrumentation for cell mechanical property measurement.
    8/12/09 - Prof.
        Squier receives a $700 thousand STTR grant from the Air Force Office
        of Scientific Research to build a high-speed, highly parallel microfluidic
        device fabrication laser workstation.
    5/14/08 - PI's Jeff
      Squier and David Marr featured on local
        news (29 MB).
    
    
        
     
      
  
  
  
  
    Microintegrated Optics For Advanced Bioimaging and Control
    Optical methods have been used for hundreds of years in biology. There
      is significant (and general) need for making these tried and true methods
      more accessible & portable as well as to make new optical techniques
      available to laboratory researchers. MOABC focuses on the integration
      of optical technology into microscopic and microfluidic systems, a need
      supported by unique facilities and capabilities that serve as the foundation
        of a very useful community resource.
      
        
    Commercial microfluidic systems under development for the past decade
      have aimed at high margin application niches such as pharmaceutical research
      and drug discovery. These systems are predominantly disposable microfluidic
      cartridge-based systems, yet require a bench-top or larger “main-frame”
      interface. Nearly all the complexity, cost, and reliability limitations
      are associated with the optics, fluidics, and electronics components in
      the mainframe. For research and diagnostic platforms to impact broader
      markets and become widespread tools both inside and outside of the laboratory,
      the hardware must be simplified and miniaturized. Functions currently
      performed by peripheral hardware must be integrated directly into the
      microscale platform. Our long-term goal focuses on reducing macroscale
      optics and electronics to an “optical lab-on-a-chip” compatible with the
      fluidics lab-on-a-chip paradigm by