Andrew Browne

6th year MD/PhD Student
Physician Scientist Training Program
231 Albert Sabin Way
Suite E457
Cincinnati, OH 45267
E-mail : browneaw@uc.edu

Biography

Andrew graduated from The Ohio State University in 2003 with his Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering. He matriculated into the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2003 and completed the first 2 years of the MD curriculum. Andrew is now 3 years into a PhD program in Electrical Engineering under the advisorship of Dr. Ahn in the Microsystems and BioMEMS group and Dr. Timothy Cripe at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation. Andrew plans to return to medical school in 2009.

Education

2005 – Present University of Cincinnati College of Engineering
2003 – 2005 University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
1998 – 2003 BS Electrical Engineering – The Ohio State University

Publications

Invited Talks
Chong H. Ahn and Andrew W. Browne "Protein Detection in Polymer Lab-on-a-Chipsfor Point-of-Care Clinical Diagnostics ," MicroScale Bioseparations Methods for Systems Biology (MSB2008), Berlin, Germany, March 9-13, (2008).

Conference Posters and Preceedings
Andrew W. Browne , Chong H. Ahn, "A PDMS Pinch Valve with Zero Dead Volume as a Valving Module for Rigid Polymer Lab Chips ," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Micro Total Analysis Systems (uTAS 2008), San Diego, CA, USA, October 12-16, (2008). Accepted

Andrew W. Browne ,WooSeok Jung, Se Hwan Lee, Michael J. Rust and Chong H. Ahn, "Monolithic Fabrication of Novel Microfluidic Components with Fixed Aspect Ratio Rounded Microfluidic Channels by a New Rapid Molding Method ," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Micro Total Analysis Systems (uTAS 2008), San Diego, CA, USA, October 12-16, (2008). Accepted

Andrew W. Browne , WooSeok Jung, Se Hwan Lee, Joon S. Shim, Kang Kug Lee, Jaephil Do, and Chong H. Ahn, "Rapid Point of Care (POC) Blood Analysis using Integrated Pulsatile Dynamic Blood Separation and Sandwich Immunoassay on a Polymer Lab Chip ," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Micro Total Analysis Systems (uTAS 2008), San Diego, CA, USA, October 12-16, (2008). Accepted

Chunyan Li, WooSeok Jung, Andrew W. Browne, Raj K. Narayan* and Chong H. Ahn, "A Smart Polymer Lab-on-a-Tube (LOT) with Spirally-Rolled Microchannels for In-Situ Brain Tumor Monitoring and Drug Delivery," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Micro Total Analysis Systems (uTAS 2008), San Diego, CA, USA, October 12-16, (2008). Accepted

Joon S. Shim, Andrew W. Browne, Se Hwan Lee, Jungyoup Han and Chong H. Ahn, "An On-chip Whole Blood/Plasma Separator with Colloidal Silica Bead-Packed Microchannels on COC Polymer," Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Micro Total Analysis Systems (uTAS 2008), San Diego, CA, USA, October 12-16, (2008). Accepted

C.Li, P.M. Wu, A. Browne , S. Lee, C.H. Ahn, "Hot-Embossed Piezoelectric Polymer MIcro-Diaphragm Arrays integrated with Lab-on-a-Chip for Protein Analysis," IEEE Sensors Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 28-31, (2007).

Student-Led Board Review Course for USMLE Step 1. Andrew Browne, Chris Brubacker, Denise D. Gibson, Adora Lin, Brett Lloyd, Adnan Mir, Brian Mitton and Chris Runyan. Poster presentation at the 11th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators, Cleveland, Ohio, July 22-23, 2007.

Awards/Funding

2008-9 Cancer Free Kids Pilot Grant Award
2007-8 UC Nanomedicine Graduate Research Assistantship
Summer 2007 URC Summer Graduate Research Fellow Ship
2006 UC Nano Institute Pilot Grant
First Place Engineering - 2003 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
"Neurotransistors"
The Ohio state University

Work/Research Experience

Undergraduate Senior Thesis (Dr. Stephen Lee and Dr. Mauro Ferrari), Columbus, OH
Neurotransistor
- Designed and modeled a system of neurons that when configured appropriately, would function as a transistor.
- Micropatterning of hippocampus neurons on a glass substrate using PDMS microcontact printing.
Biomed. Eng. Research Lab (Boston University), Boston, Massachusetts
Research Program (June 00 - Aug 00)
- Neural modeling of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus.
- Created and simulated different neuronal units using NMODL (a neuron simulation environment).
- Collaborated with NMODl's programmer for modifications.
Cancer Research Lab of Dr. Fredika Robertson, Columbus, Ohio
Research Assistant (June 99 - December 00)
- Delivering Topical applications to mice in a short-term study.
- Polymerase Chain Reaction, Gel electrophoresis and quantitative analysis
Electrical Engineering Computer Labs, Columbus, Ohio
Consultant (January 01 – September 02)
Columbus Micro Systems, Columbus, Ohio
Computer Technician (June 98 - September 98)

Professional Organizations

Tau Beta Pi - Ohio Gamma
American Medical Student's Association (AMSA)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Biotech and Engineering in Medicine at Univ. Cincinnati College of Medicine (BEM)

Research Interests

Nanoparticle mediated gene delivery
BioMEMS in Cancer Diagnostics
Affordable healthcare technologies
Nanoscale therapies for nerve regeneration