# Dino Di Carlo

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PROFESSOR/VICE CHAIR OF GRADUATE EDUCATION
BIOENGINEERING
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Armond and Elena Hairapetian Chair in Engineering and Medicine

5121E Engineering V

Email: dicarlo@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 983-3235
Fax: (310) 794-5956

Websites

- Di Carlo Laboratory

##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

- Microfluidics
- Lab on a Particle
- Single-cell Analysis
- Cell Therapies

##### NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_owO-GkAAAAJ&hl=en

##### IN THE NEWS

- Microscopic Bowls Uncover the Secrets of Protein Secretions, January 2024
- The Many Facets of Flow Cytometry | Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, February 2023
- UCLA Team Uses Magnets, Microfluidics to Create Handheld Molecular Dx System | GenomeWeb, December 2022
- Ferrobots, Roll Out: Miniaturized “Warehouse Robots” Automate Viral Surveillance | GenEng News, December 2022
- Handheld Diagnostic Platform Could Help Combat Epidemics | Physics World, December 2022
- A Handheld Kit Provides Accessible Diagnoses for Future Pandemics | Springwise, December 2022
- Handheld Diagnostic Lab Uses “ferrobots” to Automate Viral Testing | Impact Lab, November 2022
- UCLA Team Uses Magnets, Microfluidics to Create Handheld Molecular Dx System | GenomeWeb, November 2022
- UCLA Team Develops Test Kit to Hasten Disease Diagnosis | The Engineer, November 2022
- Handheld Lab That Can Make Disease Testing Over Ten Times Cheaper | Cosmos Magazine, November 2022
- Handheld Diagnostic Device Could Increase Access to Testing in Future Pandemics | Engineering & Technology, November 2022
- Ferrobots, Roll Out: Miniaturized “Warehouse Robots” Automate Viral Surveillance | Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, November 2022
- Tracking Transcripts in Biologics and Cell Therapies | Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, 10/2022
- Improving Cell Therapies with Secretion-Based Screening | Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, 9/2022
- Focused ultrasound: a potential treatment for type 2 diabetes? | Physics World, 5/2022
- Research Shows How Genetically Modified Cells may Help to Release Antibody Drug | AZO Nano, 4/2022
- Nanotechnology enables single-cell sorting by function | Phys Org, 4/2022
- Novel microscopic picoshell particles developed | Science Daily, 1/2022
- How Cytovale Is Set To Transform The Fight Against Sepsis | Forbes, 10/2021
- UCLA engineers develop miniaturized 'warehouse robots' for biotechnology applications | Eurekalert</a, 2/2020>
- Engineers develop miniaturized 'warehouse robots' for biotechnology applications | Tech Xplore, 2/2020
- UCLA Engineers Develop Miniaturized “Warehouse Robots” for Biotechnology Applications | Robotics Tomorrow, 2/2020

##### EDUCATION

- B.S., University of California, Berkeley, 2002
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, 2006
- Postdoctoral Training with Professor Mehmet Toner, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Engineering in Medicine, 2006-2008

##### AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- 2022 Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)
- 2020 Armond and Elena Hairapetian Endowed Chair in Engineering and Medicine
- 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
- 2016 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award
- 2015 Pioneers of Miniaturization Prize
- 2015 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
- 2014 Analytical Chemistry Young Innovator Award
- 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
- 2012 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award
- 2011 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
- 2011 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award
- 2010 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award
- 2010 Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Translational Research Award