Patents

“Automated addressable microfluidic technology for minimally disruptive manipulation of cells and fluids within living cultures.” RS Voronov, QL Pham, NNA Tong, US Patent 11,959,057 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210115368A1/
“Addressable Microfluidics Systems and Methods for In Vivo Applications“. R Voronov, A Tong. US Patent App. 18/508,563. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240077484A1

November 22, 2024

Congratulations to my PhD student Minh Nguyen for receiving a Cash Award for his Research Poster presentation at the SelectBIO’ Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics 2024 Meeting. The award is presented by Dr. Claudia Gärtner, CEO (Microfluidic ChipShop GmbH, Germany) and is Sponsored by the Lab on a Chip journal published by Royal Society of Chemistry!

October 20, 2024

Prof. Voronov has been inducted into the induction to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Chapter at NJIT!

February 13, 2022

Our Issue Cover SLAS Technology article entitled “Review of Low-Cost 3D Bioprinters: State of the Market and Observed Future Trends” is being honored with a 2021 SLAS Technology Readers Choice Award, reflecting popularity among readers throughout 2021. Check out the paper and the accompanying podcast!

December 4, 2019

PhD student Anne (Anh) Tong won $3,000 in an elevator pitch New Business Model Competition. Many entrepreneurs submit practical innovative ideas for review by a panel of judges at a chance to win a $3,000 summer fellowship to pay them to work on their idea. Program sponsor Capital One provides Innovation Acceleration Fellowships to winners ($3,000 each). The Fellowships allow winners to work on their business ideas, while they participate in the NJIT Martin Tuchman School of Management Summer Lean Start-up Accelerator. Anne and only three other students received the 3k award out of the 92 initial competitors. Learn more about the competition here:

http://centers.njit.edu/njiac/students/challenge/index.php

August 11, 2019

Ph.D. Candidate Danh Thanh Nguyen has been awarded a scholarship of $1,000 by the Department of Chemical Engineering for publishing in a research article in a repubtable journal during the first year of his studies. Congratulations Danh!

April 10, 2019

Prof. Voronov’s ChemE Car team scores 2nd Place in the AICHE 2019 Regionals Poster Competition!

April 10, 2019

Danh Thanh Nguyen has joined the V-Lab as a PhD student!

September 20, 2018

Undergraduate Research Assistant Migle Surblyte has been highlighted by NJIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0NPROniMSA

September 15, 2018

Prof. Voronov’s first PhD student Long Pham has started a postdoctoral appointment in the Prof. David Kaplan group at Tufts. Read more about Prof. Kaplan’s work here: https://news.njit.edu/biomedical-journey-ingenuity-and-invention-along-david-kaplans-silk-road/

August 28, 2018

PhD candidate Femi Kadri has passed his Dissertation Proposal.

August 27, 2018

PhD candidate Long Pham has passed his Dissertation Defense.

June 1, 2018

PhD student Anh Tong has passed her Qualifying Exam.

March 6, 2018

Undergraduate student Migle Surblyte wins the Blue Waters supercomputing award, which provides financial support for her to do a year-long internship in Prof. Voronov’s lab. Also, as a part of this award, she will attend a two-week Petascale Institute at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (May 21-June 1, 2018). https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/internships/interns/2018/

March 3, 2018

PhD student Anh Tong wins the Spring 2018 NSF I-Corps Site award!

December 1, 2017

December 1, 2017. Prof. Voronov gave an invited Seminar, “Cell-Cell Interactions Affect Fibroblast Directional Decision-Making during Chemotaxis in Tissue-Mimicking Microfluidic Mazes,” at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the Shriners Hospital (a subsidiary of the Massachusetts General Hospital), Boston, MA.

February 27, 2017

Prof. Voronov wins a one year $35,000 grant from the NJ Health Foundation, titled: “Novel Mechanism of Blood-Clotting Could Revolutionize Stroke and Heart Attack Treatments”.

November 16, 2016

Prof. Voronov gave an invited seminar titled: “Statistical Analysis of Undergraduate ChE Curricula of U.S. Universities”, at the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. Read more here: https://www.aiche.org/conferences/aiche-annual-meeting/2016/proceeding/paper/610b-statistical-analysis-undergraduate-che-curricula-us-universities/

October 2, 2015

PhD student Long Pham wins the Fall 2015 NSF I-Corps Site award!

November 14, 2014

Prof. Voronov wins the NJIT Faculty Seed Grant, titled: “Collaborative Multidisciplinary Platform for Single Cell Analysis – Microfluidics, Biomedical Imaging, Computation, Drug Delivery & More”. Profs. Basuray and Xu are collaborators on the grant.

October 23, 2014

Prof. Voronov wins a 3 year $400,000 Major Investment Grant from the Gustavus and Louise Pfeiffer Research Foundation, titled: “Developing New Tissue Engineering Technology for Bone Implants”. The grant includes $100,000 for undergraduate research stipends

September 1, 2013

Dr. Voronov begins as an Assistant Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s York Otto Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Engineering.