Patent Issued to Professor Zahn and Colleagues

A patent was issued to BME Professors Jeffrey Zahn and David Shreiber, MAE Professors Hao Lin and Jerry Shan, and former BME PhD student Mingde ‘Jack’ Zheng, entitled, "HIGH THROUGHPUT, FEEDBACK-CONTROLLED ELECTROPORATION MICRODEVICE FOR EFFICIENT MOLECULAR DELIVERY INTO SINGLE CELLS” (US Patent number 10,927,333). The invention describes using an intelligent, feedback controlled, microscale electroporation system for transfecting single cells in a continuous flow fashion with electrical monitoring of cell permeabilization.