How to diagnose systemic infections much more quickly and reliably
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 i
Highlighted in the Biological Research Information Center (BRIC)
09.22.2014 Joo's work was highlighted in the Biological Research Information Center (BRIC) in Korea.
Biomedical Picture of The Day
The "blood cleaner" image was published in Biomedical Picture of The Day (BPoD).|
A blood cleansing device to treat sepsis
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,
Invited to talk at the 2014 Annual Fall Meeting of the Korean BioChip Society
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!
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.
Selected as a Top Candidate for the SLAS Innovator Award
12.18.2014 Dr. Joo Kang has been selected as a TOP CANDIDATE for the SLAS Innovator Award at SLAS2015 in Washington, DC.
Highly Cited Paper" in Essential Science Indicators (Web of Science)
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).
Received the Baxter Young Investigator Award 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/563/awards-community)
