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
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Active higher quality sperm separation using a spiral channel
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Purification of sperm from high WBC semen samples using a spiral channel
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Microfluidic—based sperm sorting & analysis for treatment of male infertility