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About Us

Drop-Tech was founded in 2010 for the commercialisation of technology developed through a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London.

Our Team

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Liisa van Vliet 
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Managing Director

Liisa has an M.Phil and Ph.D. in the field of drug discovery and over 10 years research in miniaturisation and microdroplets at the University of Cambridge.  She worked for a global business consulting firm before returning to science with a BBSRC/RSE Enterprise Fellowship award to found Drop-Tech.
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Fabrice Gielen
Technology Director

With a degree in Micro and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems,  a Masters in Protein and Membrane Chemical Biology, and Ph.D in Microfluidic Technologies from Imperial College London, he fills the gap between engineering of fluidic microsystems and biomedical applications from immunoassays to live cell assays. Fabrice is responsible for developing the droplet platform and optical detection, and leads the microfluidic screening research.

Advisory Board

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Florian Hollfelder
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Scientific advisor

Florian has been lecturer in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Cambridge since 2001 and was coordinator of the EU microdroplet network MiFem.
His research centres around quantitative and mechanistic questions at the chemistry/biology interface, involving low and high- throughput approaches.  Florian is coordinator of several European initiatives, amongst them the networks on Directed Evolution of Functional Proteins (ENEFP), Selection and Analysis of Protein-protein Interactions (ProSA), Phosphate Transfer and Recognition (PhosRecChem), an Early-stage research training site ChemBioCam (“Chemical Biology at Cambridge”), and the New and Emerging Science Project MiFem (on droplet technologies).

EU Networks

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HOTDROPS
Drop-Tech hosted secondments for academics in HOTDROPS: professors from the consortium were extensively trained in microfluidic droplet generations, and new microfluidics rigs were established at several European Universities. Funding:  FP7- IAAP - 324439.


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​METAFLUIDICS
Drop-Tech provides the Metafluidics consortium with advice on commercialisation (IP and market reports) for innovations for microfluidic screening of metagenomic libraries. Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - Research & Innovation - 685474.

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MMBio
As a partner in the MMBio Consortium, Drop-Tech is hosting Early Stage Researchers from across the EU to provide them with training in microfluidic droplet technologies.Funding: EU Horizon 2020 - ITN - 721613.

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