Dr. Anoop Menachery is currently an Assistant Professor at The Maldives National University. He was previously a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Engineering and Transport, Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology, Malta. Prior to that, he was employed as a Senior Research Scientist at New York University Abu Dhabi. His expertise lies in the development of micro technologies for biological studies, and his current interests are in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for physical systems.

Dr. Menachery previously worked as a Senior Engineer and Medical Scientist at Precision for Medicine (formerly ApoCell) in Germany and the USA, respectively, where he was involved in the development, validation, and commercialization of a product to isolate circulating tumor cells from patient blood. He also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the bioelectronics group at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh in the UK. His postdoctoral research extensively utilized microfabrication technologies for the detection and isolation of stem cells and parasites.

• PhD in Electronic Engineering, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
• MSc in Nanotechnology and Microfabrication, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
• BEng in Electronics and Communication, Vellore Institute of Technology, University of Madras, India

1. Analogue Electronics
2. Electrical & Electronic Principles
3. Fundamentals of Electronics Engineering
4. Fundamentals of Mechanical and Fluid Systems
5. Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning
6. Research Methods for Engineers

1. Microfabrication and Nanotechnology
2. Bioengineering
3. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Menachery, A., and Pethig, R., ‘Controlling cell destruction using dielectrophoretic forces’, IEE Proceedings Nanobiotechnology, 2005, 152, pp. 145-149
2. Burt, J.P.H., Goater, A.D., Menachery, A., Pethig, R., and Rizvi, N.H. ‘Development of microtitre plates for electrokinetic assays’, J. Micromech. Microeng. 2007, 17, pp.250-257
3. Pethig, R., Menachery, A., Heart, E., Sanger, R.H., and Smith, P.J.S., ‘Dielectrophoretic assembly of insulinoma cells and fluorescent nanosensors into three dimensional ‘pseudo-islet’ constructs’, IET Nanobiotechnology, 2008, 2, pp. 31 – 38
4. Pethig, R., Menachery, A., Pells, S., and De Sousa, P., ‘Dielectrophoresis: A Review of Applications for Stem Cell Research’, Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, 2010
5. Menachery, A., Graham, D.M., Messerli, S.M., Pethig, R., and Smith, P. J. S., ‘Dielectrophoretic tweezer for isolating and manipulating target cells’, IET Nanobiotechnology, 2011, 5, pp. 1-7
6. Giraud, G., Pethig, R., Schulze, H., Henihan, G., Terry, J.G., Menachery, A., Ciani, I., Corrigan, D., Campbell, C.J., Mount, A.R., Ghazal, P., Walton, A.J., Crain, J., and Till T. Bachmann, ‘Dielectrophoretic manipulation of ribosomal RNA’, Biomicrofluidics,2011
7. Chung, C., Waterfall, M. , Menachery,A., Smith,S., Pethig, R., ‘Dielectrophoretic Characterisation of Mammalian Cells above 100 MHz’, J. Electr. Bioimp. , 2012, 2, pp. 64 -71
8. Menachery, A., Kremer, C., Wong, E. P., Neale, S.L., Barrett, M., and Cooper, J.M. ‘Counterflow Dielectrophoresis for Trypanosome Enrichment and Detection in Blood’, Nature Scientific Reports, 2012
9. Menachery, A., Kumawat, N., and Qasaimeh, M. ‘Label-free Microfluidic Stem Cell Isolation Technologies’, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2017, 89, pp. 1-12
10. Balasubramanian, P., Kinders, R.J., Kummar, S., Gupta, V., Hasegawa, D., Menachery, A., Lawrence, S. M., Wang, L., Ferry-Galow, K., Davis, D., Parchment, R. E., Tomaszewski, J. E., Doroshow, J. H ‘Antibody-independent capture of circulating tumor cells of non-epithelial origin with the ApoStream® system’, 2017
11. Qasaimeh, M.A., Wu,Y.C., Bose, S., Menachery, A., Talluri, S., Gonzalez, G., Fulciniti, M., Karp, J.M., Prabhala, R.H. and Karnik, R. ‘Isolation of Circulating Plasma Cells in Multiple Myeloma Using CD138 Antibody-Based Capture in a Microfluidic Device’, Nature Scientific Reports, 2017
12. Menachery, A., Kumawat, N., and Qasaimeh, M. ‘Merging orthogonal microfluidic flows to generate multi-profile concentration gradients’, RSC Adv., 2017,7, pp. 45513-45520
13. Macdonald, N.P., Menachery, A., Reboud, J. and Cooper J.M. ‘Creating tissue on chip constructs in microtitre plates for drug discovery’ RSC Adv., 2018, 8, pp. 9603-9610
14. Vembadi, A., Menachery, A. and Qasaimeh, M. ‘Cell Cytometry: Review and Perspective on Biotechnological Advances’, Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol., 2019, 7, 147
15. Brimmo, A. & Menachery, A, and Qasaimeh, M. ‘Microelectrofluidic Probe for Sequential Cell Separation and Patterning’, Lab on a Chip, 2019, 19, 4052-4063
16. Menachery, A., Vembadi, A. & Brimmo A. and Qasaimeh, M. ‘Electrically Actuated Concentration of Microparticles through Levitation and Convective Flows in Evaporating Droplets’, ACS Applied Biomaterials., 2020
17. Menachery, A., Sapudom, J., Vembadi, A., Alatoom, A. & Teo J. and Qasaimeh, M. ‘Dielectrophoretic Biomechanical Characterization of Dendritic Cell Maturation’, BioTechniques, 2020
18. Brimmo, T. A., Menachery, A., Sukumar, P., and Qasaimeh, M. A. ‘Noncontact Multiphysics Probe for Spatiotemporal Resolved Single‐Cell Manipulation and Analyses’. Small, 2021.
19. 19. Ali, D., Sofela, S. & Deliorman, M., Sukumar, P., Abdulhamid, M., Yakubu, S., Rooney, C., Garrod, R., Menarchery, A. & Hijazi, R. & Saadi, H. and Qasaimeh, M. ‘OMEF biochip for evaluating red blood cell deformability using dielectrophoresis as a diagnostic tool for type 2 diabetes mellitus’ Lab on a Chip, 2024.

Conferences

• Goater, A.D., Burt, J.P.H., Morris, D.J., Menachery, A., Matthews D.R., and Summers, H.D., ‘Laser micromachining of optical biochips’, Proceedings of SPIE 6459, 2007
• Morris, D.J. Goater, A.D., Menachery, A., Burt, J.P.H., Matthews, D.R., Summers, H.D., Pope, I., Vojnovic, B., Njoh, K.L., Chappell, S., Errington, R., and Smith, P.J., ‘Development of an optical biochip for the analysis of cell environment sensitivity’, Proceedings of SPIE 6441, 2007
• Summers, H.D., Matthews, D.R., Errington, R.J., Njoh, K.L., and Smith, P.J., Goater, A.D., Burt, J.P.H., Rizvi, N.H., Menachery, A., and Morris, D.J., ‘Semiconductor light-emitting devices with in- built bioreaction chambers’, Proceedings of SPIE 6441, 2007
• Menachery, A., Chappell, S., Errington, R.J., Morris, D., Smith, P.J., Wiltshire, M., Furon, E., Burt, J.P.H., ‘Dielectrophoretic characterization and separation of metastatic variants of small cell lung cancer cells’, NSTI Nanotechnology Proceedings, 2008
• Menachery, A., Messerli, S.M., Huyett, P., Lewis, R., Pethig, R., Smith, P.J.S., ‘DEP as a method of isolating single cells based on their fluorescence’ Gordon Conference on Bioelectrochemistry, 2008 (Poster)
• Messerli, S.M., Graham, D.M., Messerli, M.A., Menachery, A., Pethig, R., and Smith, P.J.S., ‘Measurement of Hydrogen Ion Activityin the Intercellular Space of Schwannoma Tumors’, Biophysical Society, 2009 (Poster)
• Velugotla, S., Menachery, A., Smith, S., Pells, S., De Sousa, P., and Pethig, R., ‘Dielectrophoretic studies and enrichment of human embryonic stem cells’, Faraday Discussions,2010
• Chung, C., Menachery, A., Smith, S., and Pethig, R., ‘High Frequency Dielectrophoresis’, Faraday Discussions, 2010 (Poster)
• Chung, C., Smith,S., Menachery,A., Bagnaninchi,P., Walton, A.J., and Pethig, R., ‘Interdigitated Electrode Modelling for Lossy Dielectrics’, IEEE International Conference on MicroelectronicsTest Structures, pTBA, 2011
• Neale, S.L., Witte, C., Bourquin, Y., Kremer, C., Menachery, A. , Zhang, Y. , Wilson, R. , Reboud, J., and Cooper, J.M. ‘New optical, acoustic, and electrical diagnostics for the developing world’, Proceedings of the SPIE 8251, 2012
• Kremer, C., Neale, S.L., Menachery, A., Barrett, M., and Cooper, J.M. ‘Optoelectronic tweezersfor medical diagnostics’, Proceedings of the SPIE 8212, 2012
• Menachery, A., Gupta, V., Melnikhova. V., Hasegawa, D. K., Davis, D. W. ‘ApoStreamTM from concept to market’, Advances in Microfluidics & Nanofluidics,2013
• Gupta, V., Jafferji, I., Menachery, A., Garza, M., Melnikhova. V., Hasegawa, D. K., Pethig, R., Davis, D.W. ApoStreamTM , a New Dielectrophoretic device for antibody independent isolation and recovery of viable cancer cells from blood’, Advances in Microfluidics & Nanofluidics, 2013
• Gupta, V., Balasubramnain, P., Menachery, A., Hasegawa, D., Pethig, R., Kinder. R, Davis, D.W. ApoStream®, a New Dielectrophoresis-Based Cell Separation Device for Antibody Independent Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2014
• Menachery, A., Nesro, M., Qasaimeh, M. A Multi-Profile Gradient Generator Based on Cross-Flow Microfluidic Channels, 6th International Nanomedicine Conference,2015
• Menachery, A., Kumawat, N., Qasaimeh, M. A Linear and Non-Linear Concentration Gradient Generation using Orthogonal Microfluidics, MicroTAS 2016 Conference,Dublin
• Menachery, A., Qasaimeh, M., Electrically Triggered Convection for Micro-particle Aggregation, MicroTAS 2017 Conference, Savannah, USA
• Brimmo, A., Menachery, A. and Qasaimeh, M., ‘Cell Isolation in Open Microfluidics: Microfluidic Probes Integrated with Dielectrophoresis’ MicroTAS 2018, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
• Vembadi, A., Menachery, A. and Qasaimeh, M., ‘Electrohydrodynamic cell concentration for biofabrication of agar-based 3D microtissues’, Proceedings of SPIE 10875, 2019
• Brimmo, A., Menachery, A. and Qasaimeh, M., ‘3D printed micro-electro-fluidic probe (MeFP) for single cell electroporation’, Proceedings of SPIE 10875, 2019
• Brimmo, A., Glia, A., Sukumar, P., Alnemari, R., Menachery, A., Deliorman, M. and Qasaimeh, M., ‘Integrated microfluidic probes for cell manipulation and analysis’ Proceedings of SPIE 10875, 2019
• Brimmo, A., Qasaimeh, M., and Menachery, A. ‘Simple Pin-Plate Configuration for Targeted Electroporation’, ICBES, 2021
• Menachery, A., and Johnson, C. ‘Monitoring the Status of Self-Operated Community Laundry Machines using IoT integration’, 3rd IEEE Eurasia Conference on IOT, Communication and Engineering 2021.

Patent Publications

1. PCT/US2015/023971 System and method for determining dielectrophoresis crossover frequencies.