About
Who we are, and where to find how to cite us. We design tiny plastic chips that move small amounts of liquid around, and we publish the designs so anyone can use them. The work happens at the State of Utah Center of Excellence for Biomedical Microfluidics, University of Utah, in the MFDA research group, led by Bruce Gale.
The collaboration
OpenMFDA is a collaboration of three groups, funded by the National Science Foundation under award CMMI-2245494 (LEAP-HI), “Microfluidic Design Automation for Biomedical Assays”.
- Bruce Gale’s group at the State of Utah Center of Excellence for Biomedical Microfluidics, University of Utah, leads the project.
- The Laboratory for NanoIntegrated Systems (LNIS) of Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, adapts the software used to design computer chips to microfluidic chips.
- The group of Gregory P. Nordin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, works on high-resolution 3D printing of microfluidic chips, on printers it designs and builds.
How to cite
Cite the two papers listed under Cite OpenMFDA on the home page: Goenner et al., Scientific Reports (2025), for the platform, and Snelgrove et al., DATE 2025, for the design-automation method.