WELCOME TO M.D.-ERL

About our lab

The mission of M.D. - ERL is to explore the use of electrokinetics, specifically dielectrophoresis, in microdevices with the goal of developing medical diagnostic devices to detect and quantify diseases and disease progression. The ultimate goal is to detect a variety of blood diseases and return quantitative values for the number of infected / unhealthy cells relative to the number of healthy cells - all within a single drop of blood.

FEATURED STUDENT

Meet the lab members of M.D.-ERL

I believe the most important aspect of any technology is proliferation. Medical technologies are only as beneficial as they are accessible. Microfluidics make many medical tests accessible in places and situations where they were not available before, affordable by more people and practical to administer in larger scales than previously possible. I want to make medical care available to more people around the world by developing these technologies.

OUR DIRECTOR

About the director of M.D.-ERL

Since beginning at MSU in 2003, Dr. Adrienne Minerick has built a vibrant, productive research team. She has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science and been featured in Chemical Engineering Progress and written an invited perspectives article for AIChE Journal. She has enriched undergraduate education through her NSF funded REU program and her desktop experiment modules, and her service record includes a number of executive board positions for the American Electrophoresis Society and American Society of Engineering Education.