Upcoming Events
Wed, 11 Mayhttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN11 May 2022, 9:00 am HKThttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN11 May 2022, 9:00 am HKThttps://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WNNext Wednesday via an IEEE-EMBC Technical Community on Bionanotechnology and BioMEMS (BNM) webinar Dr.Ren will share our team’s progress on developing phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing approaches that are either very rapid and cost-efficient or providing advanced functions.
Past Events
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Dr.Ren deliverd an invited talk about drug sensitivity test of microfluidic strategy
Our research article Barcoded Cell Sensor Microfluidic System is published in "Biosensors and Bioelectronics"
HKBU Scholars Listed as the World's Top 2% Most-Cited Scientists
President and Vice-Chanceller of Hong Kong Baptist University visited HKAP lab
2021.11.09
Dr.Ren deliverd an invited talk "Novel microfluidic strategy for antimicrobial susceptibility testing" at the World Sensors Summit 2021as an online guest, which attracted over 12000 online viewers during live broadcasting.
2021.10.12
Antimicrobial resistance is increasingly becoming a major threat to modern medicine, and multiple efforts should be made to address this major challenge. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is an important tool that promises to provide accurate bacterial information, such as minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs), which determine optimal use of antibiotics and potentially reduce antibiotic resistance. A major remedy is to reduce the misuse or misuse of antibiotics, especially broad-spectrum antibiotics, which are prescribed without definitive clues as to whether and which microbe is causing the infection. Many teams, including my own, are continuously working in this area (e.g. Lab Chip 2016, ChemPlusChem 2017, Trends Biotech 2017, Lab Chip2019, etc.). These new antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) methods are being developed to help physicians provide more personalized treatment.
2021.11.26
A total of 44 scholars from HKBU have been listed among the world’s top 2% of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines.
The ranking is based on the “updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, compiled and announced annually by a group of researchers at Stanford University, USA. This year, the citation covers over 186,178 top-cited scientists across 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields.
The number of HKBU scholars on the list is indicative of HKBU’s growing research strength and impact.
2021.05.07
Prof. Alexander Ping-kong Wai, President of Hong Kong Baptist University and Prof.Terence L.T.Lau, Senior Advisor to the President and Vice-Chanceller of Hong Kong Baptist University visited HKAP laboratory. Dr.Kangning Ren introduced the novel microfluidic platforms we created at HKAP for next-generation aptamer selection.
With my previous mentors Prof.Richard Zare and Prof. Hongkai Wu
Our new publication in Lab Chip
Our work featured as journal front outside cover of Analyst: Microfluidic technologies for vasculature biomimicry 《Analyst: Microfluidic technologies for vasculature biomimicry》
Prof. Jinming Lin visited our laboratory
2019.12.04
With my previous mentors Prof.Richard Zare and Prof. Hongkai Wu
2019.07.22
In this article we propose a promising new material for the fabrication of microchips to meet the needs of fast and accurate AST technology. This paper presents a facile and efficient method for fabricating monolithic polypropylene microfluidic chips, allowing submicron resolution and quasi-3D structures, with considerable cost and capability for mass production.
2019.07.19
The human vasculature, made up of a complex network of blood vessels including arteries, capillaries, and veins throughout the whole body, plays a significant role in mediating various essential physiological processes and maintaining homeostasis through various biochemical pathways. Malfunctions of the vascular system can result in serious diseases and are closely related to tumor angiogenesis and metastasis in cancer, making it a major threat to human health. Therefore, countless efforts have been conducted to recapitulate vascular models in scientific and clinical settings in order to examine vasculature-related pathologies. Particularly, microfluidic technology has been proven to be a key proponent in enabling the engineering of in vitro human vascular system models.
2019.06.26
Prof. Jinming Lin from Tsinghua University visited our laboratory and discussed with us about our study on Microfluidicdics.