Corvallis Microfluidics Tech Hub

Lead Agency: Oregon State University

State Served: Oregon

Applicant-Defined Region: Corvallis, Oregon Small rural Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) with MSA partners (Portland-Vancouver -Hillsboro, OR-WA; Salem, OR; Eugene-Springfield, OR and the small rural MSA, Albany-Lebanon, OR) and Native American communities

Core Technology Area: Microfluidics

Contact: Christie Dudenhoefer ([email protected])

Media Contact: Michael Collins ([email protected])

Organizational Link: https://cormictechhub.org/

The Corvallis Microfluidics Tech Hub (CorMic), led by Oregon State University, aims to establish global leadership in the development, commercialization, and scaling of microfluidics for use in chip cooling (particularly AI-GPUs),  and pharmaceutical manufacturing, and medical diagnostics. This Tech Hub aims to enable companies to demonstrate how microfluidics technologies can be designed and manufactured as components in a range of products, in turn paving the way for these companies to scale and bring life-changing technologies to the marketplace. 

CorMic seeks to take advantage of the semiconductor industry’s transition to liquid cooling of integrated circuits, as well as other emergent microfluidics applications, by transforming Oregon into an internationally leading center for microfluidics research and manufacturing.

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