Recent News & Research Highlights

• UC news highlighted the lab-on-a-chip devices developed for mental health. "UC lab-on-a-chip devices take public helath into home" and "Engineers develop stress test to measure cortisol" May 2025
• An article "On-site analysis of cortisol in saliva based on microchannel lateral flow assay (mLFA) on polymer lab-on-a-chip (LOC)" published in Biomedical Microdevices, Apr. 2025
• An article "A new chemiluminescence-based rapid diagnostic testing platform with sequential dual-flow strips for cardiac troponin I (cTnI)" published in Anatical Chemistry, Mar. 2025
• An article "A new sequential dual flow lab-on-a-chip with a lyophilized one-component chemiluminescence substrate for high-sensitive microchannel lateral flow assay (mLFA)" published in Sensors & Diagnostics and selected as a cover article, Mar. 2025
• An article "Lab on a chip for detecting Clara cell protein 16 (CC16) for potential screening of the workers exposed to respirable silica aerosol" published in Microfludics and Nanofluidics, Sep. 2023.
• UC news highlighted the smartphone-based lab-on-a-chip devices. "UC smartphone lab delivers test results in 'spit' second" and "International media: UC's portable lab connects to smartphone to diagnose disease" Feb. 2020
• An article "A new microchannel capillary flow assay (MCFA) platform with lyophilized chemiluminescence reagents for a smartphone-based POCT detecting malaria" published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Jan. 2020
• Dr. Chong Ahn received the 2019 Distinguised Research Professor Award in STEMM Discipline, Apr. 2019