Recent News & Research Highlights

• Dr. Ahn's Lab received a new grant, "Prototyping of Smart Safety Helmets for Reducing Work-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Due to Falls and Blunt Impacts (Phase II)", Jul. 2025
• 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.