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Soojung Claire Hur is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in microfluidics. She is a fellow at the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute and an associate researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute of NanoBioTechnology, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her research focuses on developing microfluidic platforms to understand complex fluid dynamics principles and their practical applications. Hur’s work involves studying single-cell mechanics and the correlations between cellular functions and physical phenotypes, utilizing unique microscale hydrodynamic phenomena for high-throughput target cell detection and effective cellular separation. She is actively involved in research funding initiatives and has received several prestigious awards, including the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Career Catalyst Award and the Johns Hopkins Discovery Award. In addition to her research, she serves as an editor for various scientific journals and participates in several professional scientific societies.
Johns Hopkins University • Baltimore, MD
Joined the Whiting School of Engineering faculty specializing in microfluidics and fluid dynamics.
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