NIST: Promoting U.S. Innovation

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NIST Promoting U.S. Innovation and Industrial
Competitiveness Focus on Microfluidics Clara
Asmail Technology Marketing Program
Manager Technology Services National Institute of
Standards and Technology U.S. Department of
Commerce
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NIST patented technologies to be presented
tonight

• Microfluidics portfolio
• Simple High-Performance Biochemical Analysis
• Methods For Polymer Microfluidic Fabrication
• Microfluidic Mixing And Flow Manipulation
• Uniform Assembly Of Nanoliposomes
• Surface immobilization of biopolymers

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What are Microfluidics?

• Precise control and manipulation
• of very small fluid flows
• on the order of  microliters or nanoliters  
  
• a drop of water is approximately 25
  microliters 

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Microfluidics conserves costs in biomedical
research

• Small volume of fluids in microfluidic
  channels translates to
• Small amounts of reagents and analytes used
• Integrated process steps simpler, faster

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Industrial Applicationsfor instrumentation
suppliers

• Pharmaceutical Biotech 600 B
• Diagnostics 30 B
• Medical Devices 200 B
• Drug Delivery 91 B (by 2009)
• 220 B (by 2015)
• Emerging Markets for Microfluidics
  ApplicationsGeraldine Andrieux Gustin  Yole
  Development June, 2007

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Microfluidics Market size expectations

2005 global market for microfluidic technologies
2.9B by 2011 should grow to 6.2
B i.e., an average annual growth rate of 14.1
Microfluidics TechnologyBCC
ResearchSeptember, 2006
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Companies currently in Microfluidics market space
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Microfluidics Critical market segments

• drug discovery
• drug delivery
• in-vitro diagnostics
• ink jet printing --- mature
• chemical analysis
• high-throughput screening

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Microfluidics will enable efficient screening
of more drugs in less time and drastically cut
down the costs of drug development.
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NIST technology presentations

• Dr. David Ross
• Simple High-Performance Biochemical Analysis
• Methods For Polymer Microfluidic
  Fabrication Microfluidic Mixing And Flow
  Manipulation
• Uniform Assembly Of Nanoliposomes
• Dr. Michael Tarlov
• Surface Immobilization Of Biopolymers