Dr. Scott Tsai
Areas of Academic Interest
Microfluidics
Lab-on-a-chip
Fluid mechanics
Biotechnology
Drug delivery
Spotlight
When it comes to his professional life, there are two sides to Scott Tsai: the technical expert side and the collaborative facilitator side.
Tsai鈥檚 technical expertise is grounded in his work as a biomedical engineer who specializes in microfluidics. In particular, Tsai is a leading expert in lab-on-a-chip technology and the production and control of microbubbles that can be used to enhance drug delivery, medicine, diagnostics and, ultimately, patient care. 鈥淚 really enjoy understanding how such bubbles form,鈥� he says. 鈥淗ow they grow, how droplets are generated and so on, from a physics-based modelling perspective.鈥�
The collaborative side of Tsai鈥檚 expertise centres around his Laboratory of Fields, Flows, and Interfaces (LoFFI), housed within the Institute for Biomedical Engineering Science and Technology (iBEST), a partnership between 成人大片 and St. Michael鈥檚 Hospital. Working with interdisciplinary researchers and students, Tsai is developing microfluidic systems to control the size of microbubbles, and shrink them to ten times smaller than a red blood cell. In the future, healthcare practitioners could use these modified nanobubbles to intravenously send drugs to tissue within a patient鈥檚 body and pinpoint diseases in the bloodstream through enhanced ultrasound images. 鈥淭ogether, we are working to push the boundaries of biomedicine.鈥� said Tsai.
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- United States Fulbright Visiting Research Chair Award (2018)
- Ryerson University Early Research Career Excellence Award (2017)
- Government of Ontario Early Researcher Award (2016)
- Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering I.W. Smith Award (2015)
- Gnyawali, V., Strohm, E.M., Wang, O., Tsai, S.S.H., and Kolios, M.C. 鈥淪imultaneous Acoustic and Photoacoustic Microfluidic Flow Cytometry for Label-free Analysis.鈥� Scientific Reports, vol. 9, 2019, 1585.
- Navi, M., Abbasi, N., Jeyhani, M., Gnyawali, V., and Tsai, S.S.H. 鈥淢icrofluidic Diamagnetic Water-in-water Droplets: A Biocompatible Cell Encapsulation and Manipulation Platform.鈥� Lab on a Chip, vol. 18, no. 22, 2018, pp. 3361-3370.
- Abbasi, N., Navi, M., and Tsai, S.S.H. 鈥淢icrofluidic Generation of Particle-stabilized Water-in-water Emulsions.鈥� Langmuir, vol. 34, no. 1, 2018, pp. 213-218.
- Jeyhani, M., Mak, S.Y., Sammut, S., Shum, H.C., Hwang, D.K., and Tsai, S.S.H. 鈥淐ontrolled Electrospray Generation of Non-spherical Alginate Microparticles.鈥� ChemPhysChem, vol. 19, 2018, pp. 2113-2118.
- Gnyawali, V., Moon, B-U, Kieda, J., Karshafian, R., Kolios, M.C., and Tsai, S.S.H. 鈥淗oney, I shrunk the Bubbles: Microfluidic Vacuum Shrinkage of Lipid-stabilized Microbubbles.鈥� Soft Matter, vol. 13, no. 22, 2017, pp. 4011-4016.
- Member, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), 2018 - present
- Member, Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), 2015 - present
- Member, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), 2013 - present
- Member, American Physical Society (APS), 2010 - present
- Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011-17
- Harvard University Frank Knox Scholar, 2007-12