Professional Activities

Honors & Appointments

• 2015       Young Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award, Manchester University, North Manchester, IN
  Given to outstanding individuals with ability and conviction that have demonstrated outstanding leadership in their career and are contributing to the betterment of their community and its citizens.
• 2010       TED Senior Fellow, TED, New York, NY
  2001       Fellow, Engineering & Applied Science Division, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Professional Experience

• 5/‘10 –8/‘14
  Stanford University Medical Center
  Palo Alto, California, USA
  Consulting Assistant Professor
  Explored the use of microfluidics technology to improve access to affordable medical diagnostics in the developing world.
• 6/‘11 –5/‘11
  Strategic Business Insights
  Menlo Park, California, USA
  Business Consultant
  Emerging opportunities in Sensors and Medical Technology.
• 08/‘07 –06/‘10
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  Livermore, California, USA
  Principle Investigator, Engineering Technologies
  Established microfluidics laboratory and microfluidic chip manufacturing capacity.
• 01/‘05 –06/‘07
  Stanford University & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  Stanford, California, USA
  Research Scientist, Bioengineering Department, Dr. Stephen Quake Lab
  Developed microfluidic systems for bacterial culture and research
• 09/‘01 –12/‘04
  California Institute of Technology
  Pasadena, California, USA
  Research Assistant, Applied Physics Department, Dr. Stephen Quake Lab
  Invented the microfluidic chemostat (or Microchemostat), featured on National Public Radio (NPR) and published in Science Magazine (2005; 309:137-140).
• SUMME R
  Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
  Batavia, Illinois, USA
  2000 & 2001
  Undergraduate Summer Intern

Patents

• Balagadde, F. K., Hansen, C., Kartalov, E., Quake, S. R., “Microfluidic Chemostat” US Patent No. 11/012,852
• Luthuli, B. B., Balagadde, F., K., “A Microdialysis Device”

Select Conferences & Speaking Engagements

• Biophysical Society, Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Confinement-Induced Drug Tolerance in Mycobacterium Smegmatis. November 16- 20, 2015
• Keystone Symposium, Host Response in Tuberculosis, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Confinement-Induced Drug Tolerance in Mycobacterium Smegmatis. January 22-27, 2015
• The New Role of Microfluidics in TB Research and Diagnostics, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014
• Microfluidic tools for TB Drug Susceptibility Testing. Annual Regional TB Symposium. Post-event symposium at the Ragon Institute, Cambridge, MA, October 11, 2013
• TED 2010 Conference, What The World Needs Now, Long Beach, CA, Feb 9-13, 2010
• IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology, 31st International Conference, Minneapolis, Sept. 2-6, 2009
• Society for Industrial Microbiology, Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 26 – 30, 2009
• European Federation of Biotechnology, 3rd International Conference on Analysis of Microbial Cells at the Single Cell Level, Semmering, Austria, May 26-29, 2005
• 2nd International Conference on Synthetic Biology, UC Berkeley, May 20-22, 2006
• Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, Chicago IL, October 2006