Anna Iwaniec Hickerson, PhD

Research Scientist and Lecturer
Areas of Expertise
Diagnostic Instrument Design, Microfluidics
Dr. Hickerson received her BS in Engineering and Applied Science (2000) and her PhD in Bioengineering (2005) from the California Institute of Technology.  She joined KGI in 2005 and has worked on the design of multiple diagnostic instruments including subsystems in sample preparation, amplification, and detection of nucleic acids. She is a listed inventor on six issued US patents and several more pending.  In addition to her research and teaching at KGI, Dr. Hickerson has also taught Biomechanics, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, and Biosignal Processing at Harvey Mudd College.
ALS 425
Diagnostic and Device Product Development
This course covers technical and managerial aspects involved in the development and manufacturing of instruments used in the devices and diagnostics industry, through a combination of lectures and case studies, delivered by the course instructors and invited industry experts.

Doebler RW, Erwin B, Hickerson A, Irvine B, Woyski D, Nadim A, Sterling JD. "Continuous-Flow, Rapid Lysis Devices for Biodefense Nucleic Acid Diagnostic Systems". Jala (1535-5535) 2009;14(3):119-125

Forouhar AS, Liebling M, Hickerson A, Nasiraei-Moghaddam A, Tsai HJ, Hove JR, Fraser SE, Dickinson ME, Gharib M. "The embryonic vertebrate heart tube is a dynamic suction pump". Science 2006;312(5774):751-75.

Hickerson AI, Gharib M. "On the resonance of a pliant tube as a mechanism for valveless pumping". Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2006;555:141-148

Hickerson AI. "An Experimental Analysis of the Characteristic Behaviors of an Impedance Pump" [Bioengineering Ph.D.]. California Institute of Technology; 2005 Apr 28.

Rinderknecht D, Hickerson AI, Gharib M. "A valveless micro impedance pump driven by electromagnetic actuation". Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 2005;15(4):861-866

Hickerson AI, Rinderknecht D, Gharib M. "Experimental study of the behavior of a valveless impedance pump". Experiments in Fluids 2005;38(4):534-450

Robert Doebler, Christopher Cooney, Anna Hickerson, James D. Sterling, Ali Nadim
(2012) Systems and Devices for Isothermal Biochemical Reactions and/or Analysis US Patent  8,153,064

Derek Rinderknecht, Morteza Gharib, Laurence Loumes, Arian Sureush Forouhar, Anna Hickerson
(2012) Resonant Multilayered Impedance Pump US Patent 8,092,365

Belgrader, Phil, Christopher G. Cooney, Robert Doebler, Anna Hickerson, Bruce Irvine, Ali Nadim, James Sterling, Reza Miraghaie
(2011) Temperature control device with a flexible  temperature control surface US Patent 7,955,841

Morteza Gharib, Anna Hickerson, Richmond A. Wolf
(2011) Intravascular miniature stent pump US Patent 7,998,190

Arash Kheradvar, Morteza Gharib, Anna Hickerson
(2011) Helically actuated positive- displacement pump and method US Patent 7,883,325

Morteza Gharib, Anna Hickerson, Jijie Zhou, Flavio Noca
(2007) Hydroimpedance pump US Patent 7,163,385

Contact Information

Anna Iwaniec Hickerson, PhD
Location: Building 517, Room B132
Phone: (909) 607-9541
anna_hickerson[at symbol]kgi.edu
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