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NINT Principal Investigator, Nano Life Sciences
Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry / Group Leader, Bioanalytical Microsystems, University of Alberta
Dr. Jed Harrison is researching "enabling technologies" for proteomics and genomic research with a grant from the NRC's Genomics and Health Initiative (GHI). He conducts research in the fields of analytical chemistry, capillary electrophoresis, immunoassay, micromachining, and lab-on-a-chip technology.
Dr. Harrison's lab-on-a-chip research aims at producing tools for biologists to work with cells and other micro- and nanoscale structures of living organisms.
Recent research successes for his group:
- Cell adhesion, to test drug candidates for anti-inflammatory ability;
- Electroporation, the perforation of living cells to inject biochemically active species with an electric field;
- Self-assembled monolayers which can sample bacterial cells;
- a microfluidic pump that separates rare cells out of blood, and
- Magnetohydrodynamic pumping using self-assembled gold microwires as electrical brushes.
The group also works on proteomics research. The current goal is to create a chip integrating protein preparation for mass spectral analysis.
Dr. Harrison has editorial positions on the following publications: Biomedical Microdevices, Journal of Separation Science, and Lab on a Chip. He served as Chair of the Micro-Total Analysis Conference Steering Committee from 2000-2005, and is currently President of the succeeding organization, the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society. He holds 9 patents, has co-authored 175 published papers and has given over 200 invited lectures.
Employment
- NINT Principal Investigator, NINT, National Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta. 2002-Present.
- Associate Professor/Professor, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. 1990-1994/1994-Present.
- Visiting Summer Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 1994-2000.
- Ciba-Geigy Visiting Professor, Basel, Switzerland. 1990-1991.
- Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. 1987-1990.
- Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. 1984-1990.
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 1984.
- B.Sc. (Honours), Chemical Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
Highlights
- Instrumentation Award, American Chemical Society, 2004
- Member, Royal Society of Canada, 2003.
- Maxxam Award, Canadian Society of Chemists, 2003.
- E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, NSERC of Canada, 1996-1998.
- H.E. Merck Prize in Analytical Chemistry, Merck KgaA, Germany, 1996.
Contact Information
11421 Saskatchewan Drive
Chemistry, Room W3-13
Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2
Phone: 780-492-2790
Fax: 780-641-1601
E-mail: Jed.Harrison@ualberta.ca
