Ophir Vermesh, a student of KNI Board member Jim Heath, has won the first $30,000 Lemelson-Caltech Student Prize for his effort to develop a microfluidics chip called the Integrated Blood Barcode Chip (IBBC). This chip has the potential to completely change how clinical-based blood protein biomarkers are measured. As a measurement of the value of the IBBC, it is already being utilized in three different human trials, including a brain cancer trial that involves oncologists at UCLA.
