As a bioengineering laboratory with interests in device development, Dr. Lam’s Lab has also developed diagnostic tools for hematologic and pediatric diseases that are inexpensive, simple to operate and can be used in resource-poor settings or as home-based, patient-operated self-tests. A particular interest of Dr. Lam’s is to couple these inexpensive diagnostics with smartphones to enable automated diagnosis and remote data transmission. To those ends, Dr. Lam has co-founded two companies focused on point-of-care diagnostics based on his laboratory’s research and one of their products, a color-based, disposable point-of-care anemia diagnostic was recently awarded U.S. Food and Drug Association clearance for commercialization. Dr. Lam is also the principal investigator of the Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineering Point-Of-Care Technologies (ACME POCT) Pediatric Device Consortium, which is one of the five funded centers of the Nation Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network charged to facilitate the invention, development, clinical translation and commercialization of point-of-care diagnostics. Among other honors, Dr. Lam has been elected into the American Society of Clinical Investigation, named an Emerging Investigator by the journal Lab on a chip published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, and is recipient of a National Science Fair Career Award, as well as the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology’s Frank A. Oski Memorial Lectureship Award.