Andrew Evan Kamholz, Ph.D.

WORK EXPERIENCE

President and Founder, Edge Embossing LLC, 2005 to present

Director of Advanced Development, Tecan Boston (LabCD), 2003 to 2005

Senior Scientist, MesoSystems Technology, 2001 to 2003

DEGREES

Doctorate	Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2001.
	Advisor:	Prof. Paul Yager, Ph.D.
	Dissertation:	Quantitative Analysis of Diffusion and Chemical Reaction in Pressure-Driven Microfluidic Channels (directions for purchasing)

Registered patent agent - registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office in patent cases, registration number 50596.

B.S., Biomedical Engineering, concentration in Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, May 1996.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Yager, P., Cabrera, C., and Kamholz, A. "Transverse Transport in Microsystems: Theory and Applications;" in Separation Methods In Microanalytical Systems, J. Kutter and Y. Fintschenko, eds., CRC Press, 2005.
   
2. Kamholz, A. E. “Proliferation of microfluidics in literature and intellectual property”, Lab on a Chip, 4, 16N-20N, 2004.
   
3. Kamholz, A. E. “A microscale Brownian ratchet”, Nature Materials, 2(8), 507-508, 2003.  (abstract)
   
4. Schilling, E. A., Kamholz A. E., Yager P. “Cell lysis and protein extraction in a microfluidic device with detection by a fluorogenic enzyme assay”, Analytical Chemistry, 74(8), 1798-804, 2002.  (abstract)
5. Kamholz, A. E., Yager, P. “Molecular diffusive scaling laws in pressure-driven microfluidic channels: deviation from one-dimensional Einstein approximations”, Sensors and Actuators B, 81(1), 117-21, 2001.  (abstract)
6. Kamholz, A. E., Yager, P. “Theoretical analysis of molecular diffusion in pressure-driven laminar flow in microfluidic channels”, Biophysical Journal, 80(1), 155-60, 2001.  (abstract)
7. Kamholz, A. E., Schilling, E. A., Yager, P. “Optical measurement of transverse molecular diffusion in a microchannel”, Biophysical Journal, 80(4), 1967-72, 2001.  (abstract)
8. Hatch, A., Kamholz, A. E., Hawkins, K. R., Munson, M. S., Weigl, B. H., Yager, P. “A rapid diffusion immunoassay in a T-sensor”, Nature Biotechnology, 19, 461-5, 2001.  (abstract)
9. Hatch, A., Kamholz, A. E., Holman, G., Yager, P., Böhringer, K. “A ferrofluidic magnetic micropump”, Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 10(2), 215-221, 2001.  (abstract)
10. Kamholz, A. E., Weigl, B. H., Finlayson, B. A., Yager, P. “Quantitative analysis of molecular interaction in a microfluidic channel: the T-sensor”, Analytical Chemistry, 71(23), 5340-7, 1999.  (abstract)
    

SELECTED PATENTS

US 5,972,710	Microfabricated diffusion-based chemical sensor, issue date 10/26/1999 (with 10 other inventors)
US 6,408,884	Magnetically actuated fluid handling devices for microfluidic applications, issue date 6/25/2002 (with 4 other inventors)
US 6,415,821	Magnetically actuated fluid handling devices for microfluidic applications, issue date 7/9/2002 (with 3 other inventors)
US 6,454,945	Microfabricated devices and methods, issue date 9/24/2002 (with 12 other inventors)
US 6,482,306	Meso- and microfluidic continuous flow and stopped flow electroosmotic mixer, issue date 11/19/2002 (with 4 other inventors)
US 6,541,213	Microscale diffusion immunoassay, issue date 4/1/2003 (with 3 other inventors)
US 6,695,146	Method for surface deposition of concentrated airborne particles, issue date 2/24/2004 (with 3 other inventors)
US 6,887,710	Robust system for screening mail for biological agents, issue date 5/3/2005 (with 2 other inventors)
US 6,938,777	Method for removing surface deposits of concentrated collected particles, issue date 9/6/2005 (with 4 other inventors)
US 7,011,791	Microfluidic devices for rotational manipulation of the fluidic interface between multiple flow streams, issue date 3/4/2006 (with 5 other inventors)
US 7,141,429	Use of liquid junction potentials for electrophoresis without applied voltage in a microfluidic channel, issue date 11/28/2006 (with 4 other inventors)