microLIQUID is on the hunt for experts. If you have the required aspects for being a IVD PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SCIENTIST, do not hesitate to contact us!
Position Summary:
As IVD product development Scientist in the IVD Team, you will report to the Head of the IVD & Bioscience Lab and Project Managers and work in cross-functional teams including regulatory, process engineering and assay translation operations. Additionally, you will be hands on in the Lab implementing and validating technologies related to immunoassays, molecular diagnostics and cell culture. You will be collaborating with engineering department for study designs, protocols, and reports for IVD projects, guiding junior team members in delivering successful validation.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The main functions of the position are:
microLIQUID is on the hunt for experts. If you have the required aspects for being a SENIOR MICROFLUIDIC ENGINEER, do not hesitate to contact us!
Position Summary:
We are looking for an experienced engineer with a strong technical background in the field of Microfluidics, preferably with product development experience, who is highly motivated to work with team members to develop and validate new microfluidics-based products for the IVD industry.
Your primary responsibility would be building up test systems and products from the ground up to early manufacturing stage. It is essential that you are a hands-on person with excellent engineering skills and a personal drive to achieve project goal.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The main functions of the position are:
microLIQUID is on the hunt for experts. If you have the required aspects for being a QUALITY MANAGER, do not hesitate to contact us!
Position Summary:
In a competitive environment, the ability to deliver high-quality outputs in both products and service is integral to business success. The Quality Manager will have a vital role in ensuring that performance quality and delivery of the product remains high and is continuously improving to provide goods and services that are market leading.
The Quality Manager will need to have an understanding of the marketplace, aspects of the product and service that are relevant to the customer and how this impacts on the supply chain. All this comes while ensuring costs are managed within the budget of the business.
Would you like to lead an ISO13485 Quality project in a company dedicated to the development and manufacturing in the Scientific-Health industry?
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The main functions of the position are:
World Osteoporosis Day takes place every year on October 20.
Because of the ageing of the society, osteoporosis (
Currently, osteoporosis is commonly known as a “silent killer” disease. Usually osteoporosis manifests itself in a drastic manner, i.e. through fracture of the osteoporotic bone in the affected individual. Until now little or no measures for prevention or early detection of this disease are taken, because no simple, yet sufficiently precise or sensitive tools for early detection of individuals at risk of osteoporosis are available, there is a need to develop a efficient rapid diagnostics test to detect the disease.
At microLIQUID we are proud to be able to help with our expertise in microfluidic IVD system development in this cause by being part of PoCOsteo. We are working hand in hand together with European leaders, both from academia and industry, to develop new POC applications by using the latest microfluidic technologies applied to diagnostics.
The overall objective of the currently proposed PoCOsteo project is a IVD Point-of-care development. Also, the clinical validation and preparation for commercialization of thePoint-of-Care tool for bone disease. The osteoporosis prevention, osteoporosis detection and osteoporosis treatment is our aim.
The use of durable replica moulds with high-feature resolution has been proposed as an inexpensive and convenient route for the manufacture of microstructured materials. A simple and fast duplication method, it involves the use of a master mould to create durable polymer replicas, using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The application of PDMS offers numerous advantages due to its intrinsic properties such as its biocompatibility, affordable price, transparency (240nm-1100nm) as well as its low autofluorescence. The replica process enables fast and easy manufacturing since it can be covalently stuck to a glass substrate, using plasma treatment to form sealed microfluidic devices. The replica process is clean and precise, while multiple replications can be obtained from one master. This dramatically decreases both the expenditure and the time required to create specific patterns that need to be used consistently in the creation of various devices.
microLIQUID manufactures polymer SU-8 master moulds on silicon wafers, which are widely used to produce microfluidic disposables in the development and prototyping stage. In addition, we generate series of PDMS copies with excellent reproducibility and precision. microLIQUID offers high resolution moulds with a standard deviation of under 2%. microLIQUID is working in applications such as droplet generation for PCR diagnostics, single-cell analysis and high throughput screening among others. The moulds are highly reusable since we offer several treatments to increase the service life of the mould. This replica method will help you choose the optimum design for your product prior to scaling up to mass production. Indeed, more than 50 companies all over the world have already done so.
The company is now celebrating a decade working on the design and manufacture of novel microfluidic products for our customers; we are proud and delighted to have made it this far, and excited about the future!
During this time, we´ve grown in many ways, for example by increasing the number of employees and clients, as well as boosting revenues. We have collaborated successfully in more than 300 microfluidic projects around the world, doubling our turnover since 2014 and we have gained vast experience in this business dimension. In addition, we develop new value propositions to our customers, offering unique complete value chain solutions from complex microfluidic consumables that can be processed on our own design automated instrumentation (e.g. Point of Care instruments).
Since its establishment, microLIQUID has focused on delivering quality to its customers and fulfilling their expectations. This is the reason why so many of our clients and partners trust our professionalism and appreciate the individual approach we provide.
We are grateful to all those who have worked with us and have helped us over these last 10 years to develop our company. microLIQUID´s success would not have come to fruition had it not been for their unwavering support.
We are optimistic about what lies ahead and are very confident that we will be able to help many more future customers around the world to manufacture solutions based on our microfluidics and automated instrument solutions in fields such as rapid testing, immuno-oncology, NGS and Precision medicine, liquid biopsy and drug delivery among others.
Clean room distribution in microLIQUID for microfluidics
Microfluidics Manufacturing: Clean Room Facilities
microLIQUID has in-house the means to work in microfluidics and medical devices. Our main facilities are:
INJECTION MOLDING CLEAN ROOM – ISO 7&8 for silicone and thermoplastic components.
EXTRUSION CLEAN ROOM – ISO 7&8 for silicone tubing and silicone and thermoplastic catheters.
LABORATORY AND TESTING CLEAN ROOM – for project development & testing activities.
Clean Room Facility
These means allow the company to develop:
Integration of the microfluidic manufacturing with biotechnological process treatments in the same manufacturing line ( surface treatmentes, Ag/Ab immobilization, freeze-drying etc) , Point of Care and Point of use Microfluidic Cartridges
Also, the company has the means to characterise and validate the microfluidic functionality required for final applications, with a Lab dedicated
microLIQUID has developed products for Biotech companies where the microfluidic development is done at the same time that the packaging and the equipment respecting the automation and the miniaturization (E.g. qPCR, test ELISA etc)
Clean Room Facilities for microfluidics
In our 400 m2 Clean Room Facility , the company does:
MicroManufacturing
Chemical Processes
Design and simulation
Characterization
Integration
Biological pre-validation
Some Activities & Processes:
DRIE
Dicing
Photolitography
Sputtering Metals
Hot Embossing etc…..
MicroLIQUID has reached an agreement to join the technology platform FOOD FOR LIFE – Spain(PTF4LS), working on the development of detection systems in Food & Health, along with Food Security.
Food for Life- Spain
Technology Platforms like this, are a group of stakeholders in a particular sector, led by industry, with the aim of defining a Strategic Research Agenda (acronym: SRA) on important issues and great social relevance, in which achieve European objectives of growth, competitiveness and sustainability depend on technological advances and research in the medium and long term.
Technology Platforms are based on the definition of a Strategic Research Agenda and mobilizing the critical mass of research and innovation effort needed.
Guide research in supply to industrial interests and the interests of society. The aim of this platform is to reach a consensus among all (companies and researchers) on issues of interest to be investigated. This consensus will materialize in the development of a Strategic Research Agenda.
The intention is that projects to be submitted to the various national R & D + Innovation plans are made based on the needs of the sector and not just those of the research centers or other stakeholders only.
microLIQUID joins in the project based on the capacity of the company of generating new detection systems in the Food & Health sector, like the example we see in the picture
microLIQUID develops and manufactures new detection systems based in microfluidics in the Food & Health sector
microLIQUID signs a distribution agreement with Cibertec , Key distributor of neuronal microprobes fProbes in Spain.
microfluidic microprobes fProbes
On February 26 was made official the agreement that the two companies have signed for the distribution of the neuronal microprobes Fprobes for research in EPILEPSY, PARKINSON and other BRAIN DISEASES. Cibertec will be the exclusive dealer entitled to sell the product in the Spanish national market.
Cibertec is the Spanish leader in production and distributor of devices and equipment for research and teaching in neurology and in several other fields. The company was constituted in 1977 and was born as a manufacturer of a limited number of equipment, range of stimulators and electrophysiology window discriminator, but with an advanced design.
Over the years Cibertec have been manufacturing a wide range of new equipment, mostly under specifications of its customers, and at the same time marketing products manufactured by prestigious companies.
The new distribution agreement allows Cibertec to sell the fProbes and the fPack, and also the developments coming soon in the Neuro field by microLIQUID.
The fProbes are probes with integrated electrophysiological recording and the simultaneous release of drugs in the brain with ,currently, experimental purposes. For proper functionality, fProbes are integrated in a package, the fPack, which ensures the electrical and fluidic connection.
This technology has been developed as a result of scientific collaboration between the Cajal Institute CSIC, the IKERLAN Technology Centre and the
University of Zaragoza
Here you can find the link where all is explain in deep:
Both companies have started to work the Beta Tester Program for a better landing in the market. This beta program is simply the starting point, offering to researchers a pack of one encapsulate and 5 units of the probes, in order to test the product.
Microliquid has found a perfect strategic partner to output its own product and at the same time Cibertec complete its product portfolio with a unique product in the market.
The advantages of this agreement are clear and the complementary fields of both companies allow developing the market together.
CIBERTEC Neuroscience – www.cibertec.es
microLIQUID expert in microfluidics – www.microliquid.com
Microfluidic Event in Portugal
MicroLIQUID has been present and participating in the FLOWING MATTER 2016
Our company moves to Porto to be present at the conference acting as one of the sponsors of the Event.
microfluidic Flow sensor
microfluidic conference FLOWING MATTER 2016
In the next link we can see all the companies invited as sponsors:
http://www.campodeano.com/FlowingMatter/Sponsors.html
Flowing matter lies at the crossroads between industrial processes, fundamental physics, engineering and Earth Sciences. Depending on the microscopic interactions, an assembly of molecules or of mesoscopic particles can flow like a simple Newtonian fluid, deform elastically like a solid or behave in a complex manner. When the internal constituents are active, as for biological entities, one generally observes complex large-scale collective motions.
A fundamental understanding of flowing matter is still missing impeding scientific progress, effective control on industrial processes, as well as accurate predictions of natural phenomena. Flowing matter frequently presents a tight coupling between small-scale structures and large-scale flow urging for a unifying approach. The Action will coordinate existing research efforts into a synergetic plan of collaborations and exchanges to develop an innovative multi-scale approach able to encompass the traditional micro-, meso-, and macro-scales descriptions.
Breakthroughs in the understanding of flowing matter will impact on fundamental key scientific issues, such as the glass, the elasto-plastic and the jamming transitions, as well as industrial applications including health, energy, cosmetics, detergents, food, paints, inks, oil and gas. The conference has covered the three main topics of the COST Action: complex fluids, active matter and complex flows.
The Local Organizers of the conference (Laura Campo Deaño and Nuno Araújo are Microliquid partners, Porto University people, and we are proud and happy for this mutual collaboration.
The event has been a total success and sure that in a near future in many other things or in next editions we will collaborate again. Great work from the Porto Team!!!
One idea, one design and engineering-to-production.
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