Jeffrey D. Zahn

Ph.D. Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco, 2001.

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

224 Hallowell Building
University Park, PA 16802

Tel: 814-865-8090
Fax: 814-863-0490
Email: jdzbio@engr.psu.edu
Website: BioMEMS

Research interests

Interests include: Biomedical uses of MicroElectroMechanical Systems (bioMEMS), Microfluidic devices for chemical sensing, biochemical separations, and drug delivery.

Microfabrication and MEMS Links

Ph. D. Thesis

Jeffrey D. Zahn, Microfabricated Microneedles for Minimally Invasive Drug Delivery, Sampling and Analysis, Ph.D. Thesis University of California, Berkeley, CA., Spring 2001. (pdf)

Representative Publications

Jeffrey D. Zahn, Ajay Deshmukh, Alexandros P. Papavasiliou, Albert P. Pisano, and Dorian Liepmann, An Integrated Microfluidic Device for the Continuous Sampling and Analysis of Biological Fluids, Proceedings of the ASME IMECE MEMS 2001 Symposium, New York City, NY November 2001. (pdf)

Jeffrey D. Zahn, Ajay Deshmukh, Albert P. Pisano, and Dorian Liepmann, Continuous On-Chip Micropumping Through a Microneedle, 14th Annual IEEE International MEMS-01 Conference, January 21 - 25, 2001 Interlaken, Switzerland. (pdf)

Jeffrey D. Zahn, Neil H. Talbot, Dorian Liepmann, and Albert P. Pisano, Microfabricated Microneedles for Minimally Invasive Biomedical Devices. Biomedical Microdevices –2:4 295-303 December 2000.

Jeffrey D. Zahn and Dorian Liepmann. Complex Biological Fluid Flow Through Microfabricated Microneedles, Proceedings of the ASME IMECE MEMS 2000 Symposium, Orlando FL, November 2000.

Jeffrey D. Zahn, D. Trebotich, and Dorian Liepmann, Microfabricated Microdialysis Microneedles for Continuous Medical Monitoring, Proceedings of the First IEEE EMBS Joint Conference on Microtechnology in Biology and Medicine. October 2000. (pdf)

Ronald A. Siegel and Jeffrey D. Zahn, Drug Buffering Effects of Pulsed Delivery Based on Chemical pH-Oscillators. Modeling Studies. Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Controlled Release of Bioactive Materials Controlled Release Society Inc., 1998.

Ercan Akgün, Jeffrey Zahn, Susan Baumes, Greg Brown, Feng Liang, Peter J. Romanienko, Susanna Lewis, and Maria Jasin. Palindrome resolution and recombination in the mammalian germline. Molecular and Cellular Biology, Sept. 1997 pp. 5559-5570.