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About
Dr. Weihua Fan is a pioneering biomedical engineer whose work sits at the intersection of high-throughput automation and precision cellular diagnostics. Her research focuses on developing robotic and microfluidic systems to address critical challenges in both infectious disease detection and regenerative medicine. In a landmark 2022 study, Dr. Fan designed an automatic system for the high-throughput, high-sensitivity diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, achieving 10 citations for its potential to scale COVID-19 testing. More recently, she has advanced somatic cell reprogramming by introducing a robotic-based, spatial-restricting structured flow platform that enables the selection of monoclonal cell lineages from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). This innovation directly tackles the problem of lineage manipulation during reprogramming, offering a path toward more reliable, personalized iPSC-derived therapies for disease modeling and regenerative treatment. By merging robotics with cellular biology, Dr. Fan’s contributions are laying the groundwork for automated, reproducible, and clinically translatable cell manufacturing. Her work stands out for its dual impact—addressing urgent public health needs while advancing the foundational tools of precision medicine.
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