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Over the past 10 years Igor worked as Senior Research Associate in the Franz Baudenbacher lab  at Vanderbilt University (Department of Biomedical Engineering). He took part in the development of a new microfluidic platform – the NanoPhysiometer (NP), which integrates planar electrochemical sensing electrodes with microfluidic networks. The key to the NP is its small sample volume and the close spacing of the sensing electrodes to the cells, which inherently provides the ability to record single secretory events and larger signals. The cell-to-bath volume ratio is reduced to in vivo physiological tissue conditions. As part of this project Igor developed and characterized the planar pH, oxygen, glucose, lactate and catecholamine microelectrodes and demonstrated the utilization of these electrodes in microfluidic networks to measure metabolic activity from single cells in sub-nanoliter volumes and small cell populations in nanoliter volumes. The results of this investigation were published in more than 20 publications (11 papers and 12 conference presentations).

Igor now works on further development of novel biomedical instrumentation, sensors, microfabrication, and microfluidics to create self-contained biological, microelectromechanical systems that serve as a complete laboratory-on-a-chip for a broad spectrum of applications.