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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

 
 

Miklos Gratzl, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Office: Room 448 Wickenden Building
Phone: (216)-368-6589 / 6585
Fax: (216)-368-4969
Email: mxg13@case.edu
Mail Address:Room 319 Wickenden Building
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-7207
Selected links:
• Curriculum Vitae
• Laboratory for Biomedical Sensing >>
• PubMed Citations >>

 

Curriculum Vitae


EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• University of Veszprem BS 1968-71 Chem. Eng.
• University of Veszprem MS 1971-73 Chem. Syst. Eng.
• Technical University of Budapest PhD 1982-86 Electroanal. Chem.

POSITIONS

  • 1973-1976
  Instructor and Research Assistant, The Technical University of Budapest
  • 1976
  Research Associate, Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, France
  • 1976-1979
  Research Associate, The Technical University of Budapest
  • 1979-1981
  Research Associate, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 1981
  Research Associate, The Technical University of Budapest
  • 1981-1982
  Research Associate, The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  • 1982-1984
  Research Associate, The Technical University of Budapest
  • 1984-1985
  Research Associate, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
  • 1985-1987
  Senior Research Associate, The Technical University of Budapest
  • 1987-1990
  Visiting Assistant Professor, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  • 1990-1996
  Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
  • 1996-present
  Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, O


HONORS

  • 1976
  Scholarship of the French Research Council to conduct research at the Ecole des Arts et Manufactures, Paris (6 months)
  • 1979-81
  Scholarship of the International Scientific Exchange Program to conduct research at the Swiss Federal Institue of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland
  • 1984
  Award of the "Best Scientific Paper of the Year" in 1984 by the Hungarian Journal of Chemistry (see item 4 in the List of Articles)
  • 1987-90
  Invited Visiting Professorship at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City
  • 1976-present
  Many invited lectures and seminars at conferences, universities, research institutions and companies
  • 1990-present
  Member of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Member of the Electrochemical Society
  • 1990-present
  Organizer and Chair of many BMES and ECS sponsored conference tracks and symposia
  • 1990-present
  Executive Committee of the Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences
  • 1996
  Nominated for the Diekhoff award for excellence in graduate teaching (CWRU)
  • 1999-present
  Executive Committee of the Division of Organic and Bioelectrochemistry of the Electrochemical Society
  • 1997-98
  One year sabbatical leave awarded with FULL salary for the entire year from CWRU, spent at European universities
  • 2001-present
  International Advisory Board of Sensors (international electronic journal)
  • 2002-present
  Editorial Board of the Journal of Mathematical and Physical Sciences(international electronic journal)
  • 1984-present
  Invited feature articles such as Tohda & Gratzl, 2003, J.Chem.Phys.Phys.Chem. (the cover of the journal was also featuring this work); Nair & Gratzl, 2004, Trends in Anal.Chem.; and a number of earlier articles


PATENTS

  1. Device for optical and electrochemical measurements in microliter size samples. US patent # 6,043,878 (28 March 2002) This patent application was also filed internationally at the same time (European Union, Japan)
  2. Device and methods for assessing cellular transport for research, drug discovery and testing, clinical diagnoses, and therapy design. Filed in April 2000, both as a US patent and internationally.
  3. Sliver type autonomous biosensors. Filed October 2003 both as a US patent an internationally.
  4. Device for precise chemical delivery and solution preparation. (ibid.)
  5. Hydrodynamic manipulation of individual cells to patterned attachment sites. (ibid.)
  6. Shape optimization to solve inverse problems and curve/model fitting problems. (ibid.)

REVIEWER

  • Journals: Analytical Chemistry, IEEE Biomedical Engineering Journal, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Langmuir, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Biotechnology Progress, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Book reviews: Wiley, Dekker
  • Proposals: National Science Foundation, NIH, Civilian Research and Development Foundation; Department of Defense, U.S. Army Medical Research, and Materiel Command Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP)

SELECTED PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
(in chronological order from 100 peer-reviewed journal articles)

  • Váradi M., Gratzl M., Pungor E.: Turbulent Hydrodynamic Voltammetry, Part II. Investigations of Turbulence Frequency in a Hydrodynamic Cell. Anal. Chim. Acta, 83, 1-8 (1976)
  • Gratzl M., Rakiás F., Horvai Gy., Tóth K., Pungor E.: Effect of pH on the Response of a Cyanide Ion-Selective Electrode. Anal. Chim. Acta, 102, 85-90 (1978)
  • Bates R.G., Dickson A., Gratzl M., Hrabéczy-Páll A., Lindner E., Pungor E.: Determination of Mean Activity Coefficients with Ion-Selective Electrodes. Anal. Chem., 55, 8, 1275-1280 (1983)
  • Gratzl M., Pólos L., Tóth K., Pungor E., Ebel M.F., Ebel H., Zuba G., Wernisch J.: Reactive Ion-Selective Electrodes, Part I. Surface Study of Precipitate Based Cyanide Electrodes. Magy. Kémiai Foly., 90, 487-497 (1984)
  • Gratzl M., Lindner E., Pungor E.: Theoretical Interpretation of Transient Signals Obtained with Precipitate-Based Ion-Selective Electrodes in the Presence of Interfering Ions. Anal. Chem., 57, 1506-1511 (1985)
  • Gratzl M., Hsu Duan-Fu, Riley A.M., Janata J.: Electrochemically Deposited Polythiophene. Part I: Ohmic Drop Compensation and the Polythiophene Paradox. J. Phys. Chem., 94, 5973-5981 (1990)
  • Gratzl M., Yi C.: Diffusional Microtitration: Acid/Base Titrations in Pico- and Femtoliter Samples. Anal. Chem., 65, 2085-2088 (1993)
  • Yi C., Gratzl M.: Diffusional Microtitration: Reagent Delivery by a Diffusional Microburet into Microscopic Samples. Anal. Chem., 66, 1976-1982 (1994)
  • Hui K.Y., Gratzl M.: Anomalies of Convolutional Smoothing and Differentiation. Anal. Chem. 68, 1054-57 (1996)
  • Diefes R.S., Hui K.Y., Dudik L., Liu C.C., Gratzl M.: Sample/Reagent Adsorption on Alumina vs. Pyrex Substrates of Microfabricated Electrochemical Sensors. Sensors and Actuators B, Chem., SNB030/2, 133-136 (1996)
  • Yi C., Huang D.J., Gratzl M.: Complexometric Determination of Metal Ions by Microscopic Diffusional Titration. Anal. Chem. 68, 1580-1584 (1996)
  • Xie H., Gratzl M.: Diffusional Microtitration of Metal Ions in 1-20 Microliter Samples. Anal.Chem. 68, 3665-3669 (1996)
  • Hui Y.K., Gratzl M.: Diffusional Microtitration of 20 Microliter Samples with Optical Indication. Anal. Chem. 69, 695-698 (1997)
  • Cserey A., Gratzl M.: Rotating sample system: an equivalent of a rotating electrode for microliter samples. Anal. Chem. 69, 3687-3692 (1997)
  • Kashyap R., Gratzl M.: Electrochemistry in microscopic domains. Part I. The electrochemical cell and its voltammetric and amperometric response. Anal. Chem. 70, 1468-1476 (1998)
  • Kumar G.K., Overholt J.L., Bright G.R., Hui K.Y., Lu H., Gratzl M., Prabhakar N.R.: Release of dopamine and norepinephrine by hypoxia from PC12 cells. Am. J. Phys.: Cell Phys. 274, C1592-1600 (1998)
  • Yi C., Gratzl M.: Continuous in situ electrochemical monitoring of doxorubicin efflux from sensitive and drug resistant cancer cells. Biophys. J. 75, 2255-2261 (1998)
  • Yi C., Saidel G., Gratzl M.: Single cell model for simultaneous drug delivery and efflux. Annals of Biomed.Eng. 27, 208-218 (1999)
  • Gratzl M., Yi C., Lu H., Matsumoto T., Bright G.R.: Fine chemical manipulation of microscopic liquid samples. Part I. Droplet loading with chemicals. Anal. Chem. 71, 2751-2756 (1999)
  • Lu H., Matsumoto T., Gratzl M.: Fine chemical manipulation of microscopic liquid samples. Part II. Consuming and non-consuming schemes. Anal. Chem. 71, 4896-4902 (1999)
  • Kashyap R., Gratzl M.: Adjusting the distance of electrochemical microsensors from secreting cell monolayers on the micrometer scale using impedance. Anal. Chem. 71, 2814-2820 (1999)
  • Lu H., Gratzl M.: Monitoring drug efflux from sensitive and drug resistant single cancer cells with microvoltammetry. Anal. Chem. 71, 2821-2830 (1999)
  • Lu H., Gratzl M.: Optical detection in microscopic domains. Part I. Monitoring chemical manipulations with absorption spectrometry. Anal. Chem. 72, 1569-1576 (2000)
  • Tohda K., Lu H., Umezawa Y., Gratzl M.: Optical detection in microscopic domains. Part II. Inner filter effects for monitoring non-fluorescent molecules with fluorescence. Anal. Chem. 73, 2070-2077 (2001)
  • Cserey A., Gratzl M.: Stationary-state oxidized platinum microsensor for selective and on-line monitoring of nitric oxide in biological preparations. Anal. Chem. 73(16), 3965-3974 (2001)
  • Tohda K., Gratzl M.: A microscopic, continuous, optical monitor for interstitial electrolytes and glucose. J. of Chem. Phys. and Phys. Chem. (CPC), 4 (2) 155-160 (2003)
  • Yoshida M., Tohda K., Gratzl M.: Hydrodynamic micromanipulation of individual cells onto patterned attachment sites on bioelectromechanical system chips. Anal.Chem. 75(17), 4686-4690 (2003)
  • Yoshida M., Tohda K., Gratzl M.: Optical detection in microscopic domains. 3. confocal analysis of fluorescent amphiphilic molecules. Anal. Chem., 75(22), 6133-6140 (2003)
  • Nair S., Gratzl M.: Assessing transport at live cell preparations: a case study on anomalies of deconvolution via discrete Fourier transform. TRAC, June 2004.

RESEARCH SUPPORT
Support has been obtained in the past years from NIH, NSF, The Whitaker Foundation, The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, NASA, and private sources, to fund research projects in the Laboratory for Biomedical Sensing, with Dr Gratzl as the Principal Investigator. As Co-Principal Investigator or Co – Investigator, further grants were obtained, including Program Grants, Instrumentation Grants, and Training Grants.

Current grants include NASA and NSF grants, an NIH-SBIR grant, and industrial funding.

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