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Lance C. Kam

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Lance C. Kam
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
351 Engineering Terrace
1210 Amsterdam Avenue, Mail Code: 8904

Phone: +1 212-854-8611
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Education

  • 1991: B.S., Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

  • 1991: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

  • 1994: M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

  • 1999: Ph.D., Biomedical Engineeing, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

  • 2003: Postdoctoral, Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Professional Experience

  • 1991-94: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii
  • 1994-99: Graduate Research Assistant, Wadsworth Center, Albany, NY
  • 1999-2003: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
  • 2002: Co-instructor, EE17Q From Chips to Genes, Stanford University.
  • 2003- : Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

 

Honors and Awards

  • 1997: Founder’s Award of Excellence, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • 1998: Cover photos, Report of the US-EC Workshop on Nanobiotechnology
  • 2000-1: Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH Genome Training Program, Stanford University
  • 2001-2: Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health
  • 2002: Cover photos, Accounts of Chemical Research, Vol. 35 No. 3
  • 2002-3; Co-investigator, Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Award, Stanford University

Patents

  • “Biosensor Arrays and Methods”, U.S. Patent # 6,503,452 (issued 2003).

  • “A Method for Generating Pure Populations of Mobile Membrane-associated Biomolecules on Supported Lipid Bilayers”, pending (2002).

Publications

  • Carlsson, M., Hebenicht, C., Kam, L., and Antal, M.J. Study of the Sequential Conversion of Citric to Itaconic to Methacrylic Acid in Near-Critical and Supercritical Water. Indus. Eng. Chem. Res. 33:1989-1996 (1994).
  • Hebenicht, C., Kam, L.C., Wilschut, M.J., and Antal, M.J. Homogenous Catalysis of ETBE Formation from tert-Butanol in Hot, Compressed Liquid Ethanol. Indus. Eng. Chem. Res. 34:3784 (1995).
  • Allen, S.G., Kam, L., Zemann, A.J., and Antal, M.J., Fractionation of Sugar Cane with Hot, Compressed, Liquid Water. Indus. Eng. Chem. Res. 35:2709-2715 (1996).
  • St. John, P., Kam, L., Turner, S.W., Craighead, H.G., Issacson, M., Turner, J.N., and Shain, W. Preferential Glial Cell Attachment to Microcontact-printed Surfaces. J. Neurosci. Meth. 75:171-177 (1997).
  • Craighead, H.G., Turner, S.W., Davis, R.C., James, C., Perez, A.M., St. John, P.M., Isaacson, M.S., Kam, L., Shain, W., Turner, J.N., and Banker, G. Chemical and Topographical Surface Modification for Control of Central Nervous System Cell Adhesion. J. Biomed Microdev. 1:49-64 (1998).
  • James, C.D., Davis, R.C., Kam, L., Craighead, H.G., Isaacson, M., Turner, J.N., and Shain, W. Patterned Protein Layers on Solid Substrates by Thin Stamp Microcontact Printing. Langmuir 14:741-744 (1998).
  • Lu, L., Kam, L., Hasenbein, M., Nyalakonda, K., Bizios, R., Gpferich, A., Young, J.F., and Mikos, A.G. Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cell Function on Substrates with Chemically Micropatterned Surfaces. Biomaterials 20:2351-2361 (1999).
  • Kam, L., Shain, W., Turner, J.N., and Bizios, R. Correlation of Astroglial Cell Function on Micro-patterned Surfaces with Specific Geometric Parameters. Biomaterials 20:2343-2350 (1999).

  • James, C.D., Davis, R.C., Meyer, M., Perez, A., Turner, S., Withers, G., Kam, L. Banker, G., Craighead, H.G., Isaacson, M., Turner, J.N., and Shain, W. Aligned Microcontact Printing of Micrometer Scale Polylysine Structures for Controlled Growth of Cultured Neurons on Planar Microelectrode Arrays. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 47:17-21 (2000).

  • Kung, L.A., Kam, L., Hovis, J.S., and Boxer, S.G. Patterning Hybrid Surfaces of Proteins and Supported Lipid Bilayers. Langmuir 16:6773-6776 (2000).

  • Turner, A.M.P., Dowell, N., Turner, S.W.P., Kam, L., Isaacson, M., Turner, J.N., Craighead, H.G., and Shain, W. Attachment of Astroglial Cells to Microfabricated Pillar Arrays of Different Geometries. J. Biomed. Mat. Res. 51:430-441 (2000).

  • Kam, L., and Boxer, S.G. Formation of Supported Lipid Bilayer Composition Arrays by Controlled Mixing and Surface Capture. J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 122:12901-12902 (2000).
  • Kam, L., Shain, W., Turner, J.N., and Bizios, R. Axonal Outgrowth of Hippocampal Neurons on Micro-Scale Networks of Polylysine-Conjugated Laminin. Biomaterials 22:1049-1054 (2001).

  • Kam, L., and Boxer, S.G. Cell Adhesion to Protein-micropatterned Supported Lipid Bilayer Membranes. J. Biomed. Mat. Res. 55: 487-495 (2001).

  • Ajo-Franklin, C.M., Kam, L., and Boxer, S.G. High Refractive Index Substrates for Fluorescence Microscopy of Biological Interfaces with High z-Resolution. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 98:13643-13648 (2001).
  • Kam, L., Shain, W., Turner, J.N., and Bizios, R. Selective Adhesion of Astrocytes to Surfaces Modified with Immobilized Peptides. Biomaterials 23:511-515 (2002).

  • Kam, L., and Boxer, S.G. Spatially Selective Manipulation of Supported Lipid Bilayers by Laminar Flow: Steps Towards Biomembrane Microfluidics. Langmuir 19:1624-1631 (2003).