ACTSI Investigator Dr. Wilbur Lam in the News

Wilbur Lam, MD, PhD, ACTSI investigator, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

Atlanta Magazine | Groundbreakers: Emory and Georgia Tech
September 2014

Emory News Center |Georgia Tech News Center | Platelets modulate clotting behavior by "feeling" their surroundings
September 22, 2014

Med Gadget | New Home Diagnosis Technology for Anemia with Less Than a Drop of Blood
September 19, 2014

Georgia Tech News Center | Emory News Center | One-minute Point-of-care Anemia Test Shows Promise in New Study
September 11, 2014

Atlanta Business Chronicle | Health Care Heroes finalist Robert Mannino
May 16, 2014

Georgia Tech News Center | Biomolecular Tweezers Facilitate Study of Mechanical Force Effects on Cells & Proteins
March 10, 2014

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Annual Report | Research highlights: Advancing the Science of Care in 2012
December 2012

WXIA-TV | Atlanta research team testing iPhone app for earaches
November 5, 2012

Gizmodo.com | Using your iPhone to detect ear infections also keeps the doctor away
October 12, 2012

Fox 5 News | Researchers developing app to diagnose ear infections
October 11, 2012

Fox 5 News | Inventors want iPhone to help catch ear infections
September 25, 2012

Emory News Center | Diagnose ear infections at home with iPhone
September 24, 2012

Albany Herald | Tech News Daily | Georgia Tech develops iPhone App to diagnose ear infections from home
September 20, 2012

Georgia Tech News Center | Engineering Medical Breakthroughs

Recent Publications

• Disposable Platform Provides Visual and Color-based Point-of-care Anemia Self-testing
• Ultrasoft Microgels Displaying Emergent Platelet-like Behaviours
• Using Microfluidics to Investigate Hematopoietic Stem Cell and Microniche Interactions at the Single Cell Level
• Actin Cytoskeletal Disruption following Cryopreservation Alters the Biodistribution of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells In Vivo
• Factor XIII Activity Mediates Red Blood Cell Retention in Venous Thrombi
• Mitochondrially mediated integrin αIIbβ3 protein inactivation limits thrombus growth.
• Loss of the F-BAR protein CIP4 reduces platelet production by impairing membrane-cytoskeleton remodeling.

Wilbur Lam (BME) receives a NIH R01 for "Endothelialized" microfluidics for sickle cell disease research and drug discovery.