Microfluidics Innovated
Bio-applications

Grants

On-going

  1. Principal Investigator, Modular Miniaturised Gas Chromatography Integrated with Gas Sensors for the Differentiation of Gas Species (HKD 1,352,400), Project No: ITS/209/23, 01/15/2025-07/14/2026

  2. Principal Investigator, Parallel Single-Cell Profiling of Full-Length RNA and Chromatic Accessibility Based on Droplet Microfluidics (HKD 1,134,931), HKSAR Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), Project No: 14207424, 01/01/2025-12/31/2027

  3. Co-Principal Investigator, Single Cell DNA Sequencing for Profiling Gut Microbiome in Healthy Faecal Microbiota Transplantation Donors and Patients with Clostridiodes difficile (HKD 1,156,828), HKSAR Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), Project No: 14116424, 01/01/2025-12/31/2026

  4. Co-Principal Investigator, Quantitative Phase Imaging Promoting Cell Biology, Biomedicine, New Materials and Beyond (HKD 5,000,000), HKSAR Research Grants Council (RGC) Research Impact Fund (RIF), Project No: R4024-23, 06/01/2024-05/31/2027

  5. Co-Principal Investigator, High-Resolution Single-Cell Multi-Omics: Joint Profiling of Multiple Types of Biomolecules in the Same Single Cell (HKD 6,412,248), HKSAR Research Grants Council (RGC) Collaboration Research Fund (CRF), Project No: C5005-23W, 06/01/2024-05/31/2027

  6. Principal Investigator, Development of a Single-Cell Full-Length Mitochondrial Genome Sequencing Platform Based on Droplet Microfluidics (HKD 970,181), HKSAR Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), Project No: 14219922, 01/01/2023-12/31/2025

Completed

  1. Principal Investigator, Plasmonic Pickering Emulsions-based Bio-Analytic System (HKD 1,399,644.30), Project No: ITS/217/21, 10/01/2022-03/31/2024

  2. Principal Investigator, Exploiting a Novel Digital Droplet PCR Platform for the Study of Marine Biodiversity: A Pilot Study on Targeted Fishes (HKD 1,745,150), Marine Conservation Enhancement Fund, Project No: MCEF20108_L02, 06/01/2022-05/31/2024

  3. Principal Investigator, Investigations of Single Bacterial Enzymatic Activity as a New Biomarker for the Identification of Live Foodborne Bacteria (HKD 543,734), HKSAR Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), Project No: 14207121, 01/01/2022-12/31/2023

  4. Principal Investigator, Development of a Micro Shear-Porator for Loading Red Blood Cells with Therapeutic Proteins (HKD 1,399,999.65), Innovation and Technology Support Programme, Project No: ITS/133/20, 07/01/2021-12/31/2022

  5. Co-Investigator, Development of Low-cost Label-free Image Cytometer based on Quantitative Phase Microscopy (HKD 1,385,150), Innovation and Technology Support Programme, Project No: ITS/148/20, PI: Prof. Renjie Zhou, 09/01/2021-02/28/2023

  6. Principal Investigator, All-Optical Manipulation of Droplet Microfluidics Enabled by Fluorinated Gold Nanoparticles (HKD 873,995), HKSAR Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), Project No: 14204820, 09/01/2020-08/31/2023

  7. Principal Investigator, The Development of a Droplet Trap for the in-situ Detection of Enzymatic Activity - RMG01 (HKD 100,000), HKSAR University Grants Committee (UGC) Research Matching Grant Scheme, 06/01/2020-05/31/2021

  8. Principal Investigator, Membrane Deformation Mediated Enzyme Loading into Erythrocytes via Microfluidics Spheroids (HKD 695,919), HKSAR Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), 2019-2021

  9. Co-Principal Investigator, Multi-scale Spatiotemporal Single-Cell In-Situ Analysis: Mechanism and Biomedical Applications, Ref. C5011-19G, Collaboration Research Fund, HKSAR Research Grants Council, HK$ 2,349,052, 2019-20 Exercise, 05/01/2020-10/31/2021

  10. Co-Investigator, Lab-in-a-Tube Ultra-centrifuge with Optofluidics for Bioanalysis Applications (HKD 673,470), HKSAR Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), 2019-2021

  11. Co-Investigator, EggLogics Limited, Ref. TSU20MED17, CUHK Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU), HK$ 500,000, 04/17/2020-05/01/2021.

  12. Principal Investigator, Development of an All-in-one Microfluidics Platform for Cultivation and Characterization of Multicellular Tumor Spheroids (HKD 582,000), HKSAR Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), 2017-2020

  13. Co-Investigator, Plasmonic "Biosensor-in-a-Needle" - An Intravenous Catheter Platform for in vivo Enrichment and Detection of Biomarkers and Circulating Tumor Cells in Peripheral Blood (HKD 1,397,250), Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), Seed Project, 2018-2020

  14. Principal Investigator, High Speed Imaging System (HKD 545,028), CUHK Academic Equipment Grant, 2018

  15. Principal Investigator, Development of an Inertial Microfluidics Based Approach for the Isolation of Mitochondria from Biological Samples (HKD 746,000), Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering, 07/01/2017-06/30/2019

  16. Principal Investigator, Integrated System for Multicellular Spheroids Production and Characterization (HKD 2,338,696), CUHK Start-up Fund, 09/01/2016-08/15/2019

  17. Principal Investigator, Development of a Novel Microfluidic System for the Isolation of Subcellular Organelles (HKD 150,000), CUHK Direct Grant for Research, 12/01/2016-11/30/2018

  18. Collaborator, GOALI: Graphene Paper Sensor for Disease Detection (USD 349,250), CBET Program, National Science Foundation, USA, 2015-2018

  19. Principal Investigator, Study and Quantitative Description of Nucleic Acid Condensation in Picoliter-Incubators (DKK 1,100,000), Scientific Project, Natural Science, The Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark, 2014-2016

  20. Principal Investigator, Controllable Spheroids Production for Future Cancer Diagnostics (DKK 535,392), Arvid Nilssons Fond, Denmark, 2014-2015

  21. Principal Investigator, Real-Time Measurement of the Regulatory Factors that Modify the Activity of DNA Interacting Enzymes (DKK 250,000), Equipment Grant, Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark 2013

  22. Principal Investigator, Probing Cancer from Single Cell (DKK 195,000), Karen Elise Jensens Fond, Denmark, 2012-2014

  23. Principal Investigator, Real Time Investigation of Single Cell Enzymatic Activity (DKK 3,744,129), The Danish Council for Independent Research, Technology and Production Sciences (FTP), Sapere Aude, DFF-Ung Eliteforsker, 2012-2015