Loes Segerink

CRISPR diagnostics on chip for cancer detection

During her PhD project, Loes developed a point-of-care semen analyzer system that measured the concentration and motility of spermatozoa in human semen. After 4 years, she successfully defended this work and its impact has been recognized by the Simon Stevin Leerling award (2011), Simon Stevin Gezel award (2012), and enormous media exposure. After a postdoc visit at KTH in Sweden, she obtained a Veni grant to develop new techniques to assess and select spermatozoa for assisted reproductive technologies. In 2014 she started as assistant professor, became full professor in 2021 and chair of the BIOS group in 2022. Currently her research focuses on biomedical microdevices. She can divide her current research into four themes (1) spermatozoa on chip; (2) organs on chip (3) biomarker detection on chip and (4) protoplast on chip. Characteristic of her research are the translational component, multidisciplinary approach, and outreach activities.