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Dr. Hugh Fan is an associate professor of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Department of Chemistry at the University of Florida (UF), USA. He is one of eight faculty members of Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group (IMG), an interdepartmental laboratory between the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UF. He is also one of eighteen faculty members of the Micro/Nano Fluidics Fundamentals Focus (MF3) Center in the University of California at Irvine. Dr. Fan was a visiting professor in Biomedical Diagnostics Institute at Dublin City University, Ireland in 2009 when he was on sabbatical. He was also a visiting professor at Fraunhofer Institute of Biomedical Engineering in Germany in the summer of 2010. Prior to joining UF, Dr. Fan was a Principal Scientist at ACLARA BioSciences Inc. (Mountain View, CA) and was previously a Member of the Technical Staff at Sarnoff Corp. (Princeton, NJ).
Dr. Fan's research interests include microfluidics, BioMEMS (Biomedical MicroElectroMechanical Systems), sensors, cancer diagnostics, and bioengineering. His research focus is to develop microfluidics and BioMEMS technologies and apply them to biological applications. Microfluidics is promising to reach the holy grail of “lab-on-a-chip”. In analogy to shrinking a computer from the size of a room in the 1950s to a laptop today, instruments for chemical and biological analyses may be miniaturized using modern microfabrication technology. Potential applications of the portable, miniaturized devices may include point-of-care testing (e.g., in emergency rooms), environmental monitoring, and detection of biowarfare agents in the field.
Dr. Fan is a recipient of E.T.S. Walton Award from Science Foundation of Ireland in 2009, Fraunhofer-Bessel Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2010, and Career Award from National Institute of Health in 2011. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Biosensors & Bioelectronics (ISSN: 2155-6210).
Dr. Fan received his B. Sc. from Yangzhou Teachers' College (now a part of Yangzhou University) in China and his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in Canada. Dr. Fan worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Ames Laboratory of US Department of Energy at Iowa State University. He joined UF in 2003 after more than eight years of industrial experience.
Email: hfan@ufl.edu; Telephone: 352-846-3021; Fax: 352-392-7303; Office: Larsen 223
Mailing Address: University of Florida, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, 231 MAE-A Building, P.O. Box 116250, Gainesville, FL 32611-6250, USA
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