Michelle Khine is an American bioengineer who is a distinguished scientist and innovator at the

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, co-founder of Fluxion Biosciences Inc., the scientific founder of the Shrink nano-technology platform, as well as the Assistant and Founding Professor of the School of Engineering at UC Merced. Khine, an associate biomedical engineering professor in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, is responsible for experimenting with childhood toys

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to build microfluidic channels. Her research has enabled technological advances in industries including biological research and medical diagnostics. Khine is a widely published researcher, with multiple patents grants and honors including the 2009

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Award: Selected as Top 35 Innovator under 35 in the world. Michelle Khine is also on several review committees, most notable being the Center for Scientific Review at the

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Education

Khine received her

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in 1999 and

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in 2001, under Dennis Lieu, in Mechanical Engineering from

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. Michelle continued her education at UC Berkeley and

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receiving her PhD in 2005, under Luke P. Lee, in Bioengineering. While in graduate school, she worked at

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as a MESA Fellow as well as co-founded Fluxion Biosciences (San Francisco, Ca), which was based on her dissertation work.

Selected honors and awards

In November 2000, Khine and fellow collegiate Melodie Metzger set a world speed record using the UC Berkeley Human Powered Vehicle (Bearacuda), they reached a top speed of to take the tandem record in the Women's 200 meter flying start speed trial. In September 2009, Khine was honored with the 2009 MIT Technology Review

Award: Selected as Top 35 Innovator under 35 in the world.TR35 2009 Young Innovator
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Selected peer-reviewed publications

* Ionescu-Zanetti C., Blatz A., Khine, M., "Electrophoresis-Assisted Single-Cell Electroporation for Efficient Intracellular Delivery", Biomed Microdevices. 10(1):113-6, 2008. * Grimes A., Breslauer D.N, Long M., Pegan J., Lee L.P., Khine, M., "Shrinky-Dink Microfluidics: Rapid Generation of Deep and Rounded Patterns", Lab on a Chip. 8(1):170-2, 2008. Highlighted in Chemical and Engineering News, Chemical Technology, on the Front page of American Chemical Society Homepage, (acs.org), front page of Lab on a Chip Homepage, and Wired. Most accessed paper January 2008
Lab on a Chip
* Chen, C.S., Breslauer, D.N., Luna, J.I., Grimes, A., Chin, W.C., Lee, L.P, Khine M., "Shrinky Dink Microfluidics: 3-D Polystyrene Chips," Lab on a Chip, 8, 622–624, 2008. Highlighted in Nature Medicine (May 2008)
Lab on a Chip
* Nguyen, D., Pegan, J., Sa, S., McCloskey,K.E., Manilay, J.O., Khine, M.,"Shrink-Induced Honeycomb Microwells for Uniform Embryoid Bodies" accepted to Lab on a Chip
Lab on a Chip

References

External links

UC Irvine Faculty: Michelle Khine

MIT 2009 TR35: Michelle Khine

Shrink Nanotechnologies Team
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