Welcome to Lutz Lab

Rahil Jain, EEPh.D. Candidate

Annapurni Sriram, Undergraduate Student (OLA-Simple - HIV Drug Resistance Test)

Rosemichelle Marzan, Undergraduate Student, (Collaboration Project with Global Good)

David McIntyre, Undergraduate Student (OLA-Simple - HIV Drug Resistance Test)

Jonathan Lim, Undergraduate Student (Point-of-care pulmonary TB detection using urine)

Zachary McNulty, Undergraduate Student (Point-of-care pulmonary TB detection using urine)

2017 Graduates

Annie Wing-on-Wong, BioE Senior Capstone Student (OLA-Simple), Currently at Seattle Children's Hospital

Bella Spielman, BioE Senior Capstone Student (OLA-Simple), Currently at Accenture

Nikka Higga, BioE Senior Capstone Student (OLA-Simple), Currently at Seattle Children's Hospital

2016 Graduates

Doan Dinh, BioE Senior Capstone Student (Lab on a phone call project), Currently at Physio Control

Ian Andrews, BioE Senior Capstone Student (OLA-Simple), Currently at MIT

2015 and before

Shivani Dharmaraja, Masters Student (Point-of-Care Diagnostics for HIV)

Madhav Murthy, Undergraduate Researcher (Point-of-Care Diagnostics for HIV)

Ricky Liu, BioE Senior Capstone Student (Capillary-driven Point-of-Care Diagnostics, collaboration with Deok-Ho Kim)

Pranav Venkataraman, BioE Senior Capstone Student (Smart Shunt Project)

Marie Eberlein, BioE Senior Capstone Student (AC Fluidics Project)

Chenyi Wang, BioE Senior Capstone Student (Smart Shunt Project)

Bibianna Cha, Research Engineer (Smart Shunt Project)

Joel Relethford, Research Engineer (Smart Shunt Project)

James Wong. BioE Senior Capstone Student (AC Fluidics Project, Protein Printing)

Damon Cassisi. Research Engineer (Smart Shunt Project)

Rachana Shah. Graduate Student, MS 2010 (AC Fluidics Project)

Yoni Browning. Undergraduate Student (AC Fluidics Project)

Reid Philips. BioE Senior Capstone Student (AC Fluidics Project)

03/27

The Lutz group is recruiting for postdoctoral researchers and research engineers to develop novel point of care diagnostics for global health and home testing. We have multiple projects in areas of HIV, respiratory infection (including Covid-19), and other infectious diseases. We are looking for strong thinkers who can contribute in the following areas:

• Point of care device engineering (mechanical prototyping, optical detection, low-cost electrical design) 
• Development of novel assays (RNA/DNA detection, nucleic acid amplification) 

Please send your CV to Dr. Lutz with the subject “Lutz Lab Hiring 2020”

03/08

Rahil passed his defense. Congratulations!

03/01

OLA Simple won the 2nd place $10k award at the annual Health Innovation Challenge

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/student-entrepreneurs-tackle-genetic-testing-clinical-trials-health-startup-competition/

09/09

Dr. Lutz traveled to Nepal as part of a Bioengineering department group to make ties to Kathmandu University.

09/01

Rahil's paper on the flow magnitude and phase measurement in resonant devices is published and selected to be featured on the Front Cover of the Journal Analytical Methods.

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/ay/c7ay01699a#!divAbstract

08/22 - 09/15

Rahil got the Amazon Catalyst grant ($50k) and the GIX Innovation Award ($20k) to further work on commercializing his side projects.

08/15

Dr. Nathan White (UW, Emergency medicine) and Dr. Lutz submitted a new collaboration grant to work on a smartphone-powered thromboelastography device based on the resonant microfluidics project.

07/14

Nuttada received the prestigious 2017 UW Medicine Bud Tribble and Susan Barnes Graduate Discovery Fellowship. To learn more: https://bioe.uw.edu/nuttada-panpradist-receives-graduate-discovery-fellowship/

05/01

Rahil's paper featured on the Front Cover of the Journal Lab on a Chip Volume 17 Number 9

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/lc/c7lc90043k#!divAbstract

News article - https://bioe.uw.edu/ph-d-student-rahil-jain-investigates-smart-solutions-for-diagnostics-home-electronics/

04/27

Nuttada passed her Generals! Congratulations!

03/06

Dr. Lutz traveled to Bangladesh to experience the global health needs first-hand.

02/06

Nuttada and her OLA-Simple team were featured on KIRO NEWS

https://www.engr.washington.edu/news/panpradist

01/28

Rahil passed his Generals. Congratulations!

08/31

Congratulation to Nuttada and Rahil for being selected as 10 finalists around the nation for the APF Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare. The competition, administered by Massachusetts General Hospital's Ambulatory Practice of the Future (APF) and sponsored by the Gelfand Family Charitable Trust, encourages and supports engineering students' efforts to develop innovative, clinically-relevant primary health care technology concepts.

06/10

Congratulations to Doan and Ian on graduating. Ian made it to coveted Husky 100 and is heading to MIT for graduate school. Doan will be working with Physio Control in Redmond WA. Good luck to you both.

05/12 

Congratulations to Nuttada and Rahil to make it final round of APF Student Technology Prize. Both are independently getting $10k to further their research. Final proposals are due Aug 29.

03/11

Congratulations to Annie on receiving Mary Gates Research Scholarship!

02/12

Nuttada and Dr. James Lai (our collaborator on the OLA-Simple Project) wrote a chapter on point-of-care diagnostics as part of the book titled "Biomaterials Nanoarchitectonics" edited by Mitsuhiro Ebara. The book has just been published and now available at Elsevier website and can be downloaded via the UW library.

02/01

Bioengineer sophomore Jonathan Lim joined the Lutz Lab and will work on the TB project. Welcome Jonathan!!!

01/11

Nuttada's manuscript in PLoS ONE! "Simplified paper format for detecting HIV drug resistance in clinical specimens by oligonucleotide ligation" - see publications

02/20 - 02/21

Nuttada, Annie, Ian and Nikki are presenting at the XXV International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop in Boston, MA (a closed workshop, with a limited attendance of 200 delegates). Stop by and check out their poster presentations in the New Resistance Technologies and Interpretations Session!

01/20

Nuttada is co-lecturing with Dr. Sylvia LaCourse in the GH590 Global WACh BioEngineering Seminar on "Opportunities for Point-of-care TB Diagnostics" Come by at 4:30 - 5:30 PM at EEB 037 in the Electrical Engineering Building!

01/04 - 03/11

Dr. Lutz is teaching the Global Health Technology: Molecular Diagnostics!

01/04 - 03/11

Nuttada is TAing for BIOEN 531 Proposal Writing by Dr. Marta Scatena - one of the three Bioengineering Graduate Core classes! She is teaching a class on oral presentation and grant reviewing process on the Feb 8th, 2015.

08/31

Congratulation to Nuttada and Rahil for being selected as 10 finalists around the nation for the APF Student Technology Prize for Primary Healthcare. The competition, administered by Massachusetts General Hospital's Ambulatory Practice of the Future (APF) and sponsored by the Gelfand Family Charitable Trust, encourages and supports engineering students' efforts to develop innovative, clinically-relevant primary health care technology concepts.

06/10

Congratulations to Doan and Ian on graduating. Ian made it to coveted Husky 100 and is heading to MIT for graduate school. Doan will be working with Physio Control in Redmond WA. Good luck to you both.

05/12 

Congratulations to Nuttada and Rahil to make it final round of APF Student Technology Prize. Both are independently getting $10k to further their research. Final proposals are due Aug 29.

03/11

Congratulations to Annie on receiving Mary Gates Research Scholarship!

02/12

Nuttada and Dr. James Lai (our collaborator on the OLA-Simple Project) wrote a chapter on point-of-care diagnostics as part of the book titled "Biomaterials Nanoarchitectonics" edited by Mitsuhiro Ebara. The book has just been published and now available at Elsevier website and can be downloaded via the UW library.

02/01

Bioengineer sophomore Jonathan Lim joined the Lutz Lab and will work on the TB project. Welcome Jonathan!!!

01/11

Nuttada's manuscript in PLoS ONE! "Simplified paper format for detecting HIV drug resistance in clinical specimens by oligonucleotide ligation" - see publications

02/20 - 02/21

Nuttada, Annie, Ian and Nikki are presenting at the XXV International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop in Boston, MA (a closed workshop, with a limited attendance of 200 delegates). Stop by and check out their poster presentations in the New Resistance Technologies and Interpretations Session!

01/20

Nuttada is co-lecturing with Dr. Sylvia LaCourse in the GH590 Global WACh BioEngineering Seminar on "Opportunities for Point-of-care TB Diagnostics" Come by at 4:30 - 5:30 PM at EEB 037 in the Electrical Engineering Building!

01/04 - 03/11

Dr. Lutz is teaching the Global Health Technology: Molecular Diagnostics!

01/04 - 03/11

Nuttada is TAing for BIOEN 531 Proposal Writing by Dr. Marta Scatena - one of the three Bioengineering Graduate Core classes! She is teaching a class on oral presentation and grant reviewing process on the Feb 8th, 2015.