Media Coverage

• Our paper (Laferriere-Holloway et al. Anal. Methods 15: 377-387, 2023) was highlighted in:

  • Marianne Patt "[18F]fluoride on TLC: expecting the unexpected!", part of Kiss et al. "Highlight selection of radiochemistry and radiopharmacy developments by editorial board", EJNMMI Radiopharm Chem 8: 6, 2023

• Our papers (Lisova et al. EJNMMI Radiopharm Chem 5: 1, 2020; Lisova et al. Nucl Med Biol 61:36-44, 2018) were highlighted in:

  • Giuseppe Carlucci “Droplet radiochemistry: next generation technology”, part of Al-Qahtani et al. “Highlight selection of radiochemistry and radiopharmacy developments by editorial board (January – June 2020)”, EJNMMI Radiopharm Chem 6: 5, 2021 

• Our paper "Ionic-surfactant-mediated electro-dewetting for digital microfluidics" was highlighted in:

  • Frieder Mugele, "Droplet motion electrically controlled", Nature 572, 445-446, 08/21/2019 

• The Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, including  our lab and the Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Technology Center, were recently highlighted in a video by Web's Edge

  • WebsEdgeHealth, "Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA", Youtube, 6/19/2019

• We recently wrote an accessible summary of our papers "Toward miniaturized analysis of chemical identity and purity of radiopharmaceuticals via microchip electrophoresis" and "Novel volumetric method for highly repeatable injection in microchip electrophoresis" that appeared in:

  • Noel S. Ha and R. Michael van Dam. Toward more accessible PET imaging: Miniaturizing the last step of radiotracer preparation.  Atlas of Science, 5/1/2019

• Our research and paper "Producing diverse probes for positron emission tomography with limited resources: Synthesis of 24 F-18-labeled compounds with a single radiosynthesizer"  was highlighted in:

  • Melissa Moore, Many probes, one box, Sofie Biosciences blog post, 6/12/2016

• Our paper "A Transmetalation Reaction Enables the Synthesis of [18F]5-Fluorouracil from [18F]Fluoride for Human PET Imaging" was highlighted as:

  • ACS Editor's Choice, American Chemical Society, 2/14/2016

• The ELIXYS radiosynthesizer was highlighted in:

  • Matsui Kazuhiro "Fully automated robotic & innovative PET probe synthesizer supported by global technologies [Japanese]", Isotope News (Journal of Japan Radioisotope Association) No. 740, 12/1/2015

[Japanese version available from author's ResearchGate page here]

• Our paper "Efficient Radiosynthesis of 3′-Deoxy-3′-18F-Fluorothymidine Using Electrowetting-on-Dielectric Digital Microfluidic Chip" was highlighted in:

  • David E. Reichert, A Digital Revolution in Radiosynthesis, Journal of Nuclear Medicine 55(2): 181-182, 2/1/2014

• Our paper "Radiolabelling diverse positron emission tomography (PET) tracers using a single digital microfluidic reactor chip" was highlighted in:

  • HOT articles, Lab on a Chip Blog, 1/16/2014

• Our paper '“Clicked” fluoropolymer elastomers as robust materials for potential microfluidic device applications' was highlighted in:

  • Russell Johnson, Hot Article, Journal of Materials Chemistry Blog, RSC Publishing, 1/17/2012

• Our paper "Micro-chemical synthesis on a digital microfluidic device" was highlighted in:

  • This week in PNAS, Genome Web, 1/3/2012

  • Stuart Mason Dambrot, Of microchemistry and molecules: Electronic microfluidic device synthesizes biocompatible probes, PhysOrg.com, 1/26/2012

• Our paper "Cerenkov radiation imaging as a method for quantitative measurements of beta particles in a microfluidic chip" was highlighted in:

  • Paula Gould, QA check for radiotracer generator, medicalphysicsweb, IOP Publishing, 12/4/2009

  • Editor's Choice in Physics in Medicine and Biology, medicalphysicsweb, IOP Publishing, 11/6/2009

Prior to UCLA:

• A figure in our conference paper "Automated Microfluidic-Chip-Based Stand-Alone Instrument for the Synthesis of Radiopharmaceuticals on Human-Dose Scales" was highlighted in:

  • Image of the Month, nanoWorldnews, Nano Science and Technology Institute (NSTI), 2/14/2008

• Our paper "Solvent-Resistant Photocurable Liquid Fluoropolymers for Microfluidic Device Fabrication" was highlighted in:

  • A "liquid Teflon" microfluidic device, Analytical Currents, Analytical Chemistry 76(9): 151A, 5/1/2004

  • Andrew J. DeMello, Liquid Teflon, Research Highlights, Lab on a Chip 4(2):9N, 4/17/2004

  • 'Liquid Teflon' used to fabricate microfludic devices, Science Concentrates, Chemical & Engineering News 82(09): 27, 3/1/2004

  • Mark S. Lavine, Chemistry: Microfluidics for Organics, Science Editor's Choice Highlights of the Recent Literature, Science 303: 1106, 2/20/2004

• Our work on PDMS microfluidics with integrated microvalves was highlighted in:

  • Douglas L. Smith, Rubber Layered Micropumpers, Engineering & Science LXVI(2): 8-18, California Institute of Technology, 2003

• Our paper "Gene Expression Analysis with Universal n-mer Arrays" was highlighted in:

  • Aaron J. Sender, One Array, Every Organism, Genome Technology, 3/1/2002