To date, there are no methods that can quickly and accurately detect pathogens in blood to allow the diagnosis of systemic bloodstream infections that can lead to life-threatening sepsis. The standard of care for detecting such blood-borne infections is blood culture, but this takes days to complete, only identifies pathogens in less than 30% of patients with fulminant infections, and it is not able to detect toxic fragments of dead pathogens that also drive the exaggerated inflammatory reactions leading to sepsis. (A full story can be found at the Wyss Press Release website.) The paper was published in eBiomedicine, which is a newly launched medical journal supported by Cell Press and Lance
09.22.2014 Joo's work was highlighted in the Biological Research Information Center (BRIC) in Korea.
The "blood cleaner" image was published in Biomedical Picture of The Day (BPoD).|
Blood-cleansing biospleen device was developed for sepsis therapy and published in Nature Medicine (http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.3640.html). This work was featured in Washington Post, Harvard Gazette, HMS News, The Wyss Institute News Letter,Nature, Science AAAS Latest News, The Scientist, Yahoo News, Medical Express, Laboratory Talk, Daily Mail (UK), DongA.com(South Korea), BRIC (한빛사), and KBS News. See Article Metrics in Altmetric- It scored 361, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries out of 136,180 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals.
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.
Celebrating our new papers published in Nature Medicine and Nature Biotechnology, recently (2014) The photos representing TLP (Tethered-liquid Perfluorocarbon) and FcMBL beads attached on S.aureus and E.coli were printed on the cake.
12.18.2014 Dr. Joo Kang has been selected as a TOP CANDIDATE for the SLAS Innovator Award at SLAS2015 in Washington, DC.
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).
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/563/awards-community)
Joo Kang gives a seminar in the 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://bioeng.kaist.ac.kr/)
10.16.2013 Joo Kang was invited to give a presentation at the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs 2014 Conference that will be held in Washington D.C., June 18-21, 2014.(https://www.asaio.com/annual-conference/60th-conference-2014/)
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 published in Nature Medicine hit 10,000 Page Views (within 5 months after online publication on September 14th, 2014.)
Joo Kang was invited to speak at World Circulating Tumor Cells Summit 2013 Boston, MA, November 12-15, 2013.
10.14.2014 Biospleen was selected for one of the 10 Ebola-fighting technologies (Qmed)
Kang speaks at New England Bioscience Society (NEBS) 23rd Annual Conference, Tosteson Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (invited podium presentation)
The Baxter Young Investigator Award feature story has now been published (Link) (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. )
