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Carolyn Ren is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and director of Waterloo Microfluidics Laboratory. She held a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Microfluidics and Lab-on-a- Chip technology from 2009-2019. She is also a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of Royal Society of Canada, and a fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The Microfluidics research lab aims to gain a fundamental understanding of microfluidics and nanofluidics and develop chip-based technology for biological, chemical and biomedical diagnosis, analysis and treatment. Current research programs focus on developing microfluidics enabled wearable technologies and products such as active knee sleeve and edema sleeve, instrumentation for protein fractionation, water quality monitoring and infectious disease diagnosis such as the COVID-19 and enabling tools for automated high-throughput single particle or single cell analysis using active droplet microfluidic platform technologies.
Carolyn Ren is also an entrepreneur and has co-founded four companies, Advanced Electrophoresis Solutions Inc. focusing on protein separation, Quantwave Technology Inc. focusing on microwave sensing for water and food quality control, Air Microfluidic Systems Inc. specialized in soft robotic wearable systems, and Alphaxon focusing on protein fractionation.
Carolyn Ren is a member of Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-nanotechnology/people-profiles/carolyn-ren),
Water Institute (https://uwaterloo.ca/water-institute/about/people/c3ren),
Center for Bioengineering and Biotechnologies (https://uwaterloo.ca/bioengineering-biotechnology/about/people/c3ren),
Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research (https://uwaterloo.ca/waterloo-centre-microbial-research/about/people/c3ren).
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 888-4567
Staff and Faculty Directory
Contact the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
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