News and Media Coverage

  • 01.20.2016  Joo Kang is appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNIST, Korea. He will join UNIST in Feb., 2016.

  • 11.11.2015 The front cover of the paper published in journal Small is released today. 
    Optimization of Pathogen Capture in Flowing Fluids with Magnetic Nanoparticles
    10. 21. 2015 Joo Kang receives Tony B. Academic Travel Award from SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening)
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  • 10. 12. 2015 Joo Kang is invited to give a podium presentation at 30th Anniversary Fall Meeting and International Symposium of KSBB (The Korean Society of Biotechnology and Bioengineering) in Songdo, Incheon, Korea.

  • 10. 08. 2015 Wyss Institute launches Opsonix to commercialize its pathogen-extracting sepsis therapy.
  • 09. 28. 2015 The paper published online in journal Small is selected for the Front Cover of an upcoming issue of Small!

  • 09. 21. 2015 Kang, JH, et al., "Optimization of Pathogen Capture in Flowing Fluids with Magnetic Nanoparticles" published in Small is now available online. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.201501820)

  • 08. 06. 2015 "Optimization of Pathogen Capture in Flowing Fluids with Magnetic Nanoparticles" is accepted for publication in journal Small. 

  • 07. 26. 2015 The extracorporeal opsonin hemoadsorption system for sepsis therapy is published in Biomaterials.

  • 05. 16. 2015 Kang speaks at New England Bioscience Society (NEBS) 23rd Annual Conference, Tosteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (invited podium presentation)
  • 04. 06. 2015 Joo Kang speaks at US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, which will be held in Atlanta, GA on July 29 – August 1, 2015. (invited podium presentation)

The Biospleen paper hit 10,000 page view

  • 01.03.2015    Kang is invited to give a podium presentation at the 38th Annual Conference on Shock, Denver, Colorado, June, 2015.

  • 12.18.2014    Dr. Joo Kang has been selected as a TOP CANDIDATE for the SLAS Innovator Award at SLAS2015 in Washington, DC.

  • 11.13.2014   The Baxter Young Investigator Award feature story has now been published (Link)

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(From left to right: Hang Ren, Joo Kang, Ph.D., Michael Van Niewenhze (on behalf of Erkin Kuru), Pratik Randeria, Abigail Weaver and Shudipto Dishari, Ph.D. )

  • 10.14.2014 Biospleen was selected for one of the 10 Ebola-fighting technologies (Qmed)

10 Ebola-Fighting Technology

  • 09.10.2014 Kang's paper (Lab Chip, 2012, 12(12), 2175-2181) was selected as a "Highly Cited Paper" in Essential Science Indicators (Web of Science). 

  • 09.10.2014 Joo Kang is invited to give a podium presentation at the 2014 Annual Fall Meeting of the Korean BioChip Society that will be held in Osong C&V center, Korea, on September 30 - October 2, 2014.

  • 08.04.2014 Joo Kang was selected to receive the Baxter Young Investigator Award 2014. The Awards ceremony will be held in the Baxter R&D center, IL on September 18th, 2014. (http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/304/)
  • 08.22.2013 Joo Kang will give a seminar in Department of Bio and Brain Engineering at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, November 20, 2013. (invited as one of the Young Frontiers in Bio and Brain Engineering(https://biosys.kaist.edu/)
  • 08.28.2013 Joo Kang was invited to speak at World Circulating Tumor Cells Summit 2013 Boston, MA, November 12-15, 2013.
    (http://ctc-summit.com/)

  • 08.20.2013 CNN Money

Joo Kang’s work (Biospleen) was featured on CNN Money. “Spleen on a chip' removes blood viruses”

http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/08/16/t-ts-spleen-on-a-chip.cnnmoney/index.html

'Spleen on a chip' removes blood viruses

  • 05.25.2013 Wyss Institute Press Releases

Wyss Institute was awarded DARPA agreement to serve allege sepsis healing device

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/108/wyss-institute-awarded-darpa-contract-to-further-advance-sepsis-therapeutic-device

 

  • 05.23.2013 Health Medicine Network

Wyss Institute was awarded DARPA agreement to serve allege sepsis healing device

http://healthmedicinet.com/i/wyss-institute-awarded-darpa-contract-to-further-advance-sepsis-therapeutic-device/

 

  • 06.13.2013 MIT Technology Review

Artificial Spleen Offers Hope for Faster Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
technology review spleen on a chip joo kang harvard wyss

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/515886/artificial-spleen-offers-hope-for-faster-sepsis-diagnosis-and-treatment/

 

  • 04.09.2013 Gizmag

Spleen-on-a-chip could treat bloodstream infections

http://www.gizmag.com/spleen-on-a-chip-blood-filter/26994/

 

  • 02.02.2013 Telegraph

The one million dollar Bionic Man Project – including the Spleen-on-a-chip


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9844020/My-close-encounter-with-the-bionic-man.html

 

  • 12.20.2012 Joo Kang was Awarded Postdoctoral Award for Professional Development from Harvard University

Joo Kang postdoctoral award for professional development Harvard University
http://www.postdoc.harvard.edu/finding-funding/papd/

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=86877443518&story_fbid=185276004946865

  • 10.21.2012 Joo Kang was Awarded Wyss Technology Development Fellowship

http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/88/technology-development-fellows