Peer-reviewed Publications




Rapid, multiplexed microfluidic phage display
K. Cung, R.L. Slater, Y. Cui, S.E. Jones, H. Ahmad, R.R. Naik, M.C. McAlpine, Lab Chip 2012, 12 (3), 562–565.




A robotics platform for automated batch fabrication of high density, microfluidics-based DNA microarrays, with applications to single cell, multiplex assays of secreted proteins
H. Ahmad, A. Sutherland, Y.S. Shin, K. Hwang, L. Qin, R.J. Krom, J.R. Heath, Review of Scientific Instruments 2011, 82, 094301.




A clinical microchip for evaluation of single immune cells reveals high functional heterogeneity in phenotypically similar T cells
C. Ma*, R. Fan*, H. Ahmad, Q. Shi, B. Comin-Anduix, T. Chodon, R.C. Koya, C. Liu, G.A. Kwong, C.G. Radu, A. Ribas, J.R. Heath, Nature Medicine 2011, 17, 738-743.




Protein signaling networks from single cell fluctuations and information theory profiling
Y.S. Shin, F. Remacle, R. Fan, K. Hwang, W. Wei, Habib Ahmad, R.D. Levine, J.R. Heath, Biophysical Journal 2011, 100 (10), 2378-2386.




A self-powered, one-step chip for rapid, quantitative and multiplexed detection of proteins from pinpricks of whole blood
J. Wang, H. Ahmad, C. Ma, Q. Shi, O. Vermesh, U. Vermesh, J.R. Heath, Lab Chip 2010, 10, 3157-3162.




Chemistries for patterning robust DNA microbarcodes enable multiplex assays of cytoplasm proteins from single cancer cells
H. Ahmad*, Y.S. Shin*, Q. Shi*, H. Kim, T.A. Pascal, R. Fan, W.A. Goddard III, J.R. Heath, Chem. Phys. Chem. 2010, 11, 3063-3069.




Piezoelectric ribbons printed onto rubber for flexible energy conversion
Y. Qi, N.T. Jafferis, K. Lyons, C.M. Lee, H. Ahmad, M.C. McAlpine, Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 524–528.




Integrated barcode chips for rapid, multiplexed analysis of proteins in microliter quantities of blood
R. Fan*, O. Vermesh*, A. Srivastava, B.K.H. Yen, L. Qin, H. Ahmad, G.A. Kwong, C. Liu, J. Gould, L. Hood, J.R. Heath, Nature Biotech. 2008, 26, 1373-1378.




Peptide-nanowire hybrid materials for selective sensing of small molecules.
M. C. McAlpine, H. D. Agnew, R. D. Rohde, M. Blanco, H. Ahmad, A. D. Stuparu, W. A. Goddard III, J. R. Heath, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 9583–9589.




Highly ordered nanowire arrays on plastic substrates for ultrasensitive flexible chemical sensors.
M. C. McAlpine, H. Ahmad, D. Wang, J. R. Heath, Nature Mater. 2007, 6, 379-384.






Patents




Arrays, substrates, devices, methods and systems for detecting target molecules.
R. Fan, H. Ahmad, J. R. Heath. Application 12174601
Published 02/05/2009, No. 20090036324.