Burcu Gumuscu Sefunc
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Burcu is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at TU/e. She strives for the development, fabrication, and application of smart biomaterials to realize high-precision processing in high-throughput microfluidic settings. She specifically focuses on the design and development of lab-on-a-chip devices containing hydrogels for diversified life sciences applications. Burcu is also interested in combining data-mining and machine learning techniques with hypothesis-driven experimental research for future research.
We are driven by the goals of creating knowledge unlocked from nature and then inventing solutions to address pressing questions about human health.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Burcu Gumuscu worked as a senior researcher in Mesoscale Chemical Systems Research Group at the University of Twente, where she performed independent research on nano-fabricated arrays for biomolecule analysis. In 2017 and 2018, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Bioengineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where she developed microfluidic biosensors for single-cell analysis. She received her Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the BIOS Lab-on-a-chip group at the University of Twente. Her Ph.D. thesis primarily aimed at the design and development of microfluidic devices for next-generation sequencing, organ‐on-chip, and water desalination on the microscale. She is the recipient of the Pieter Langerhuizen grant given in 2019 by The Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW). Burcu serves as a web writer at the Royal Society of Chemistry in collaboration with the development editor of Lab on a Chip Journal, and a review editor in Frontiers in Digital Health Journal.
Recent Publications
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Ana C. Manjua,Joaquim M.S. Cabral,Frederico Castelo Ferreira,Han Gardeniers,Carla A.M. Portugal,Burcu Gumuscu
Design of Blood Vessel Models using Magnetic-Responsive Vascular Platforms
Advanced Materials Technologies (2023) -
Daan C. ‘t Hart,Dilemin Yildiz,Valentina Palacio-Castañeda,Lanhui Li,Burcu Gumuscu,Roland Brock,Wouter P.R. Verdurmen,Johan van der Vlag,Tom Nijenhuis
Co-Culture of Glomerular Endothelial Cells and Podocytes in a Custom-Designed Glomerulus-on-a-Chip Model Improves the Filtration Barrier Integrity and Affects the Glomerular Cell Phenotype
Biosensors (2023) -
Jihoon Ko,Dohyun Park,Somin Lee,Burcu Gumuscu,Noo Li Jeon
Engineering Organ-on-a-Chip to Accelerate Translational Research
Micromachines (2022) -
Ana C. Manjua,Joaquim M.S. Cabral,Frederico Castelo Ferreira,Han Gardeniers,Carla A.M. Portugal,Burcu Gumuscu
Magnetic blood vessel devices as vascularization models
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Koen Minartz,Vlado Menkovski,Burcu Gumuscu,Jan de Boer
Simulation of Scientific Experiments with Generative Models
(2022)
Current Educational Activities
Ancillary Activities
- Web writer in collaboration with the development editor of the Lab on a Chip Journal., Royal Society of Chemistry