Fraunhofer to open Dublin Lab-on-Chip center

The Science Foundation Ireland and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft are collaborating to create a 5 million euros center for embedded bioanalytical systems at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland.

By Peter Clarke, EETimes Europe, Mar. 20, 2017 – 

The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen, Germany, is providing 2.5 million euros(about $2.7 million) over five years to support the operation and to back up 2.5 million euros investment in DCU being made by the Science Foundation Ireland.

The unit, known as the Fraunhofer Project center, is the first such in Ireland and is due to open in May 2017. It will focus on microfluidic "lab-on-a-chip" projects as both contract and collaborative research. These systems will enable "point-of-use" testing of samples such as blood or water for a wide range of applications, including personal healthcare, pharmaceutical production, life-science research, quality testing in agrifood and environmental monitoring.

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