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Your CD player as a medical diagnostics device | Marc Madou | TEDxUCIrvine

3,281 views · Published 20 November 2014 · 15:00 · Indexed 18 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Listen to Marc Madou talk about how his research team was able to transform a CD player into a Medical Diagnostics Device. 

Before joining UCI as the Chancellor’s Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MEA), Dr. Madou was Vice President of Advanced Technology at Nanogen in San Diego, California. He specializes in the application of miniaturization technology to chemical and biological problems (BIO-MEMS). He is the author of several books in this burgeoning field he helped pioneer both in Academia and in Industry. He founded several micromachining companies and has been on the board of many more. Some of Dr. Madou’s recent research work involves artificial muscle for responsive drug delivery, a compact disc-based fluidic platform and carbon MEMS, the two latter fields were pioneered by Dr. Madou. At UCI Dr. Madou works on carbon-MEMS, a CD based fluidic platform, artificial muscle for responsive drug delivery and integrating fluidics with DNA arrays as well as researching label–free assays for the Molecular Diagnostics platform of the future. He currently leads UCI’s efforts in Advanced Manufacturing and in Educational Outreach in Advanced Manufacturing. To find out more about those recent research projects, visit www.biomems.net

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