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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2012
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);
John P. Wikswo, Brentwood, TN (US);
David E. Cliffel, Nashville, TN (US);
Dmitry A. Markov, Nashville, TN (US);
John A. McLean, Nashville, TN (US);
Lisa Joy McCawley, Nashville, TN (US);
Phillip C. Samson, Nashville, TN (US);
Ronald S. Reiserer, Nashville, TN (US);
Frank Emmanuel Block, Nashville, TN (US);
Jennifer Robin McKenzie, Nashville, TN (US);
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, TN (US);
Abstract
In one aspect of the invention, an integrated bio-object microfluidics chip includes a fluidic network having a plurality of inlets for providing a plurality of fluids, a plurality of outlets, a bio-object chamber for accommodating at least one bio-object, a plurality of fluidic switches, and one or more pumps, coupled to each other such that at least one fluidic switch operably and selectively receives one fluid from a corresponding inlet and routes the received fluid, through the one or more pumps, to the bio-object chamber so as to perfuse the at least one bio-object therein, and one of the downstream fluidic switches selectively delivers an effluent of the at least one bio-object responsive to the perfusion to a predetermined outlet destination, or to the at least one fluidic switch for recirculation.