Fredrik Thege

PhD Candidate
Biomedical Engineering, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Contact information
fit5 (at) cornell (dot) edu
Kimball Hall, Room 390
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853

Research interests:
MICROFLUIDICS, LAB ON A CHIP, CIRCULATING TUMOR CELLS, PANCREATIC CANCER, EXOSOMES, MICROVESICLES, METASTASIS, EMT, CHEMORESISTANCE
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Biography
Fredrik Thege joined the Micro/Nanofluidics Laboratory in September 2011. Fredrik holds a Master of Science in Biotechnology from Lund University, Sweden. During his MS Fredrik studied at University of California, Irvine and École Normale Supérieure, Paris. In his Master Thesis Fredrik worked on microfluidic generation of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUV) for application as artificial cell models.

Current research projects

Publications with Kirbylab:
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Podium Presentations
October 2013 I Parallelized microfluidic immunocapture of circulating pancreas cells for the early detection of pancreatic carcinogenesis, MicroTAS 2013, Freiburg, Germany
September 2013 I Multiplexed microfluidic immunocapture of circulating pancreas cells for the early detection of pancreatic carcinogenesis, September 2013, BMES Annual Meeting, Seattle

Honors and Awards
March 2015 I Session chair, Sibley Graduate Research Symposium, Cornell University
June 2013 I Poster session award, Third prize, GRC Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics
2013 – 2014 I Lester B. Knight, Jr. Scholarship Number Two, Cornell University
2012 – 2013 I Med-into-Grad Scholarship, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Summer 2011 I Summer immersion program at Weill Cornell Medical College/New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell University
2011 – 2012 I Lester and Sheila Robbins Scandinavian Graduate Student Fellowship, Thanks to Scandinavia, Cornell University
Fall 2010 I Erasmus Scholarship, European Union, École Normale Supérieure Paris
Fall 2009/Winter 2010/Spring 2010 I Dean’s Honors List, University of California, Irvine
2009 – 2010 I SEB Scanian Scholarship, Lund University
2009 – 2010 I The Anna Whitlock Scholarship, Lund University
2009 – 2010 I Travel scholarship, Engineer Hakon Hansson’s Foundation, Lund University
2009 – 2010 I Travel scholarship, Stiftelsen Malmö Stads Jubileumsfond, Lund University

Education
M.S. 2011 – Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Biotechnology