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Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing

Faculty and Staff

Guiren Wang

Title: Associate Professor
Affiliate faculty in Mechanical Engineering
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing
Email: guirenwang@sc.edu
Website: Microfluidics and Bioimaging Lab
Phone: 803-777-8013
Fax: 803-777-0106
Office:

300 Main Street    
Room A221    
Columbia, SC 29208

Resources: Curriculum Vitae
Headshot of Guiren Wang

Education

  • Postdoc, Stanford University
  • Ph.D., Technical University, Berlin, Germany, 1999
  • M.S., East China University of Science and Technology, 1988
  • B.S., Northwest University, China, 1983

Research Overview

Dr. Wang's research and interests include micro/nanofluidics, electrokinetics, lab-on-a-chip, far field optical nanoscopy, super-resolution imaging, cancer detection, fluorescence spectroscopy, tissue engineering, fluid dynamics, turbulence and mixing.

Selected Publications

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  • H Jiang H, Jongkhumkrong J, Chao YJ, Wang Q, Wang G. Rapid Single-cell Measurement of Transient Transmembrane Water Flow under Osmotic Gradient. J Membr Biol. 2026 25;259(1). doi: 10.1007/s00232-026-00375-6. PubMed PMID: 41739214; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC12935827.
  • Libo Zhang, Andrew Beatty, Lin Lu, Akrm Abdalrahman, Thomas Makrisa, Guiren Wang, Qian Wang. Microfluidic-assisted polymer-protein assembly to fabricate homogeneous functional nanoparticles. Materials Science & Engineering C. 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2020.110768
  • R. Wang, Fang Yang, Wei Zhao There can be turbulence in microfluidics at low Reynolds number. LabChip, 2014. 14. 1452–1458.
  • Mohammed Alshareef, Juarez-Perez, E., Metrakos, N., Xiaoming Yang, Fadi Azer, Fang Yang, G. Wang Separation of tumor cells with dielectrophoresis-based microfluidic chip. Biomicrofluidics 7, 011803 (2013). Special Topic: Microfluidics In Cancer Research.
  • Kuang, C, G. Wang. "Far-field nanoscopic velocimeter for nanofluidics." Lab-on-a-Chip. 10, 240–245, (2010).

Teaching

  • BMEN 321 Biomonitoring and Electrophysiology
  • BMEN 354 Biotransport
  • BMEN 260 Biomechanics
  • BMEN 720 Transport Phenomena in Biomedical System
  • BMEN 532/EMCH 562 Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip
  • BMEN 537/EMCH 567 BioMEMS/NEMS: fundamentals of micro/nanofabrication
  • EMCH 767 Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

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