Summary
Sam Au is a senior lecturer (associate professor equivalent) in the Department of Bioengineering. His research group uses lab-on-chip microdevices to important problems in cancer metastasis and cancer immunotherapy through close collaborations with biologists, clinicians and physical scientists. His research has been funded by Cancer Research UK, Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust. He founded the MRes in Cancer Technology programme at Imperial College and the Institute of Cancer Research and has held numerous editorial roles including as Associate Scientific Advisor for Science Translational Medicine. More information can be found on the Au Lab Website.
Prior to Imperial, Sam was a Tosteson Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Professor Mehmet Toner at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital where he developed microfluidic models of the microvasculature to investigate how circulating tumour cell clusters traversed the narrow vessels of the body. Sam obtained a PhD in Biomedical Engineering while in Professor Aaron Wheeler's group at the University of Toronto in 2013 and a BSc in Chemical Engineering in 2008.
Sam’s research publications can be found at the tab above, or on Google Scholar.
Publications
Journals
Kawara S, Cunningham B, Bezer J, et al., 2023, Capillary-scale hydrogel microchannel networks by wire templating, Small, Vol:19, ISSN:1613-6810
Au SH, 2023, Circulating Tumor Cell Cluster Sorting by Size and Asymmetry., Methods Mol Biol, Vol:2679, Pages:15-23
Ashby JF, Schmidt J, Kc N, et al., 2022, Microfluidic T cell selection by cellular avidity., Advanced Healthcare Materials, Vol:11, ISSN:2192-2640, Pages:1-14
Varotsos Vrynas A, Perea Paizal J, Bakal C, et al., 2021, Arresting metastasis within the microcirculation, Clinical & Experimental Metastasis, Vol:38, ISSN:0262-0898, Pages:337-342
Conference
Suba K, Hansen B, Ruhela A, et al., 2022, Functional imaging of pancreatic islets on a microfluidic chip platform, WILEY, ISSN:0742-3071