SC1: TECHNOLOGIES, APPLICATIONS AND COMMERCIALIZATION OF POC DX

MONDAY, AUGUST 19 | MORNING, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Farragut

ABOUT THIS COURSE:

This short course will provide an overview on the technological aspects of POC system developments. It will introduce current technologies such as microfluidics, sensors, paper- and smartphone-based approaches and discuss their trends and limitations. The course will discuss a variety of POC systems in different stages of their development, from early stage to established diagnostic systems in the clinical routine. Market aspects of POC systems as well as practical examples of commercialization for molecular diagnostic, immunological and clinical tests will be presented.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

• Introduction to point-of-care diagnostic systems
• Technical aspects of POC development
• Microfluidics
• Lateral flow and paper-based systems
• Detection technologies
• Sensors and wearables
• Development and manufacturing aspects of POC systems
• System examples
• Commercialization issues
• Conclusions

INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHY:

Dr Holger Becker is co-founder and CSO of microfluidic ChipShop GmbH. He obtained physics degrees from the University of Western Australia/Perth and the University of Heidelberg. He started to work on miniaturized systems for chemical analysis during his PhD thesis at Heidelberg University, where he obtained his PhD in Applied Physics in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 he was a Research Associate at Imperial College with Prof. Andreas Manz. In 1998 he joined Jenoptik Mikrotechnik GmbH. Since then, he founded and led several companies in the field of microsystem technologies in medicine and the life sciences, for which he received various awards, most notably a nomination for the “Deutscher Gründerpreis” in 2004. He led the Industry Group of the German Physical Society between 2004 and 2009, and is the current chair of the SPIE ‘‘Microfluidics, BioMEMS and Medical Microsystems’’ conference, co-chair of MicroTAS 2013 and in the Industrial Committee for MicroTAS 2016 and 2017. He serves on the Advisory Board of “Lab-on-a-Chip”, the Editorial Boards of “Microelectronic Engineering” and “Micro and Nanosystems” as well as on the Board of Trustees of the “Physik Journal”. In 2014, he was appointed a Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry (London). He has published more than 160 journal and conference paper with currently >5.500 citations.