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personnel profile

Stephen Quake

 
Title:Professor; Lee Otterson Professor
Department(s):Bioengineering
Affiliation(s):Co-Chair, Bioengineering; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Location:Clark E350Q
Mail Code:5432
Phone:650.736.7890       650.736.1809
Fax:650.736.1961
E-mail: quake@stanford.edu
URL: http://thebigone.stanford.edu
http://bioengineering.stanford.edu/faculty/
Administrator: Jody Joseph

Research Statement

Professor Quake's interests lie at the nexus of physics, biology and biotechnology. His group pioneered the development of Microfluidic Large Scale Integration (mLSI), demonstrating the first integrated microfluidic devices with thousands of mechanical valves. This technology is helping to pave the way for large scale automation of biology at the nanoliter scale, and he and his students have been exploring applications of lab-on-a-chip technology in functional genomics, genetic analysis, and structural biology. Quake is also active in the field of single molecule biophysics.

Degree Discipline Year School
PhD Physics 1994 Oxford
Publication TitleAuthor(s)/Speaker(s)Open Document
Molecular biology on a microfluidic chip Hong, JW; Chen, Y; Anderson, WF...
Effects of a modified dye-labeled nucleotide spacer arm on incorporation by thermophilic DNA polymerases Quake, SR, et. al.
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Academic Honors & Awards

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
National Institute of Health Director's Pioneer Award
Fellow American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering 2007