MAY 10TH, 2022
Génie en images contest. Congratulations to Elena who won the Coup de cœur du public award in the Génie en images contest for her image entitled “A Nebula of Cells”! Her image represents the response to a radiotherapy treatment of each cell forming a 900 µm spheroid.
JANUARY 11TH, 2022
Microfluidic Surface Shields. Congratulations to Oscar for his paper in Physical Review Applied on open-space microfluidics used for the selective shielding of surfaces from flow and diffusion!
AUGUST 21TH, 2021
Comparing tumor explant models. Congratulations to Dina for her paper published in Cancers comparing two tumor explant models, the microdissected tissue and the tissue slices.
AUGUST 11TH, 2021
Hypoxia on-a-chip. Elena designed a microfluidic chip to easily form, culture, and treat jumbo (> 750 μm) tumor spheroids to study the effect of their natural hypoxia in cancer treatment efficiency. See her published paper in Cancers.
OCTOBER 15TH, 2021
A simple static contact angle correction for capillary driven multiphase flow simulations. Congratulations to Samuel for his paper published in Computers and Fluids!
JANUARY 28TH, 2021
X-Ray on chip. Maeva published a paper in Radiotherapy & Oncology where four radiation doses can be delivered to a single microfluidic chip to analyze potential synergies of PARP inhibitors and radiotherapy to kill cancer cells in spheroids.
JANUARY 12TH, 2021
Pixel-based open-space microfluidics. Imagine 144 liquid pixels capable of delivering precisely controlled reagents in a surface of 1 cm2! That’s what is described in our new paper published in PNAS and titled: “Pixel-based open-space microfluidics for versatile surface processing”.
DECEMBER 1ST, 2020
2D convection–diffusion in multipolar flows. Étienne published a new article in Physics of Fluids entitled “Two-dimensional convection – diffusion in multipolar flows with applications in microfluidics and groundwater flow”. Congratulations!
MAY 12TH, 2020
Meritas Gala. Congratulations to Étienne Boulais, for winning the best TA in engineering physics award and to Pierre-Alexandre Goyette, for winning the best graduate teacher in biomedical engineering award for 2019-2020!
NOVEMBER 14TH, 2019
Traînées d’étoiles microfluidiques by Pierre-Alexandre Goyette. Congratulations to Pierre-Alexandre Goyette who won the NSERC-sponsored Jury Prize of the 10th edition of Acfas’ la preuve par l’image contest for his image of the movement of fluorescent microbeads on the surface of a microfluidic probe.
OCTOBER 9TH, 2019
Understanding self-coalescence in microfluidics. Researchers from IBM and Polytechnique Montréal published an article in Nature explaining the self-coalescence of a fluid in a microfluidic channel, paving the way for the development of portable diagnostic systems.
LAB LIFE
What a great hike to the top of Mont Saint-Hilaire!
JUNE 20TH, 2019
Congratulations to Maeva! She received an award at the World Preclinical Congress for her poster titled Optimization of a Microfluidic System for High-Throughput Screening of Combinations of Drugs with Radiotherapy on Spheroids.
APRIL 16TH, 2019
Theory and applications of microfluidic multipoles are revealed in our new article in Nature Communications. A summary is available here.
FEBRUARY 18TH, 2019
Treatment response following on-chip combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy is detailed in our new article in Scientific Reports.
JANUARY 10TH, 2019
We published a new article in Lab on a Chip detailing how a micro-histological platform can be used to study ex vivo micro-dissected tissue response to treatment.
JULY 20TH, 2018
We published a new article in Scientific Reports on 3D printed microfluidic probes.
JULY 12TH, 2018
We published a new article in Analyst on hyperspectral fluorescence imaging for spheroids in microfluidic chips.
LAB LIFE
Combat archery!
NOVEMBER 27TH, 2018
We published a new article in Lab on a Chip on forming spheroids using microfluidic funnels.
CHEMINAS YOUNG RESEARCHER POSTER AWARD
Congratulations to Robin for winning the CHEMINAS Young Researcher Poster Award at Microtas 2017 in Savannah, USA.
LAB LIFE
We did it! We escaped with the money!