Sindy Tang

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Radiology and of Bioengineering

Bio

Prof. Sindy KY Tang is the Kenneth and Barbara Oshman Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and by courtesy of Bioengineering and Radiology (Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics) at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Engineering Sciences under the supervision of Prof. George Whitesides. The micro-nano-bio lab under the direction of Prof. Tang aims to develop innovative micro and nanoscale devices that enable precise manipulation, measurement, and recapitulation of biological systems, in order to understand the "rules of life" and accelerate precision medicine and material design for a future with better health and environmental sustainability. She was a Stanford Biodesign Faculty Fellow in 2018. Prof. Tang’s work has been recognized by multiple awards including the NSF CAREER Award, and invited lecture at the Nobel Symposium on Microfluidics in Sweden. Website: http://web.stanford.edu/group/tanglab/

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Associate Professor (By courtesy), Radiology
Associate Professor (By courtesy), Bioengineering
Member, Bio-X
Member, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
Faculty Fellow, Sarafan ChEM-H

Administrative Appointments

Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University (2023 - Present)
Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University (2018 - Present)
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2018 - Present)
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (2011 - 2018)

Honors & Awards

Faculty Fellow Award, The Reid and Polly Anderson Foundation (2011-2013)
Junior Faculty Fellow Award, Gabilan (2011-2013)
Petroleum Fund New Investigator Award, ACS (2013-2015)
3M Nontenured Faculty Award, 3M (2013-2015)
NSF CAREER Award, NSF (2015-2020)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

Editorial Board, Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Nature Springer Publishing (2022 - Present)
International Advisory Board, Advanced NanoBioMed Research, Wiley Publishing (2020 - Present)
Associate Editor, Droplets, Wiley Publishing (2022 - Present)
Advisory Board, Lab on a Chip, Royal Society of Chemistry (2022 - Present)
Editorial Board, Micromachines, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Publishing (2020 - Present)
Site Director, NSF Science & Technology Center for Cellular Construction (2017 - Present)
Co-lead of Bio Interfaces Focus Area, Stanford SystemX Alliance (2018 - Present)

Professional Education

PhD, Harvard University, Engineering Sciences
MS, Stanford University, Electrical Engineering
BS, Caltech, Electrical Engineering

Patents

Sindy KY Tang, Craig Criddle, Jaewook Myung, Minkyu Kim. "United States Patent 10,273,510 Emulsion-based fermentation for accelerated gas substrate mass transfer", Leland Stanford Junior University
Sindy K.Y. Tang, Ming Pan, Fengjiao Lyu, Ratmir Derda. "United States Patent 11,135,586 Fluorinated pickering emulsion", Leland Stanford Junior University
Lucas R. Blauch, Sindy K. Y. Tang. "United States Patent App. 16/425796 Microfluidic guillotine for splitting cellular structures", Leland Stanford Junior University
Nimit Jain, Andrew Z. Fire, Lucas R. Blauch, Sindy K. Y. Tang, Karen L. Artiles, Julia T. Garcia-Daou; Y. Whitney Yin; Michal R. Szymanski. "United States Patent App. 17/624,782 RNA Replication Using Transcription Polymerases", Leland Stanford Junior University
Nicolas Castano, Seth Cordts, Fengjiao Lyu, Bryan Bunning, Kari Nadeau, Sindy K.Y. Tang. "United States Patent App. 62/888,884 Microfluidic device and diagnostic methods for allergy testing based on detection of basophil activation", Leland Stanford Junior University
Ratmir Derda, Sindy K.Y. Tang, George M. Whitesides. "United States Patent 9,499,813 Systems and methods for amplification and phage display", Harvard University, Dec 11, 0189

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

The long-term goal of Dr. Tang's research program is to harness mass transport in microfluidic systems to accelerate precision medicine and material design for a future with better health and environmental sustainability.

Current research areas include: (I) Physics of droplets in microfluidic systems, (II) Interfacial mass transport and self-assembly, and (III) Applications in food allergy, single-cell wound repair, and the bottom-up construction of synthetic cell and tissues in close collaboration with clinicians and biochemists at the Stanford School of Medicine, UCSF, and University of Michigan.

For details see https://web.stanford.edu/group/tanglab/

Stanford Advisees

Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Annatoma Arif, Nicolas Castano, Sungu Kim, Mengren Wu
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Saisneha Koppaka, Myra Kurosu Jalil, Rajorshi Paul, Rosa Son, Kevin Zhang
Master's Program Advisor
Edward Diller, Ghadi Nehme, Rosa Son, Karina Ting, Shrey Verma
Doctoral Dissertation Co-Advisor (AC)
Ramon Rodriguez
Postdoctoral Research Mentor
Sungu Kim

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