HormOptix
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About
HormOptix introduces a compact, low-cost hormone monitoring system using silicon photonic microchips to support personalised care in women’s health. By combining light-based sensors, affordable lasers, and custom electronics, the device provides fast, accurate, multi-hormone data from a small sample, enabling frequent, at-home testing. Designed as a stepping stone toward fully integrated diagnostics, this portable platform aims to close gender data gaps in medicine and empower both patients and researchers with accessible, real-time hormone insights
Team
Tenna Yuan
Zavary Koehn
Lukas Chrostowski
Karen Cheung
Callum O’Riley
Suhail Khalil
Peter Van Den Doel
James Marx
Bennett Galamaga
Ben Cohen
University of British Columbia
Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Ben is completing his Master of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. His research focuses on miniaturizing silicon photonic biosensor systems for point-of-need applications and developing integrated optical frequency comb lasers for metrology. Beyond his thesis, Ben is a Chip Designer at Dream Photonics in Vancouver, specializing in optical packaging. He has also gained valuable international experience through research internships in Suzhou, China, and Hamburg, Germany, and has worked in both the automotive industry and an electrochemical biosensor startup.
Sheri Chowdhury
Kithmin Wickermasinghe
Ella Yan
Samantha Grist
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