State of Utah Center of Excellence for Biomedical Microfluidics
The Center is dedicated to the discovery, understanding, development and commercialization of microscale and MEMS devices for application to biological, biomedical, and medical problems.

Alex graduated with University Honors from Brigham Young University in 2016 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and ARCS Research Fellow. He works on microfluidic semen preparation, Sperm Isolation from mTESE samples, and microfluidic xPCR. (Refer to Biomedical Devices and Lab-on-a- Chip Systems)

Select PAPERS:

• Instrumentation for xPCR incorporating qPCR and HRMA
• 40 cycle PCR using human genomic DNA in less than 1 minute on a microfluidic chip

• Separation of sperm cells from samples containing high concentrations of white blood cells using a spiral channel

• Active higher quality sperm separation using a spiral channel

• Purification of sperm from high WBC semen samples using a spiral channel

• Microfluidic—based sperm sorting & analysis for treatment of male infertility