Nanoptic Research Lab. is participating in a leading research related to bio-chip development such as Lab-on-a-chip and Micro-TAS which are diagnosis/treatment instruments of medical biotechnology based on MOEMS(Micro-Optical-Electro-Mechanical System) technology, a longterm business field.Bio-chip is being acknowledged as a high value-added technology which is necessarily required in the wide range of health and medical, agricultural, environmental, food, and chemical industry. And the global market estimate of this industry amounts to as big as US$3,300 million by 2004, and the governments, venture businesses and big pharmaceutical companies in the advanced countries are developing it investing huge amount of research budget. Bio-chip research keenly needs R&D cooperation and work dividing due to its multi-disciplinary feature that it should cover biochemistry, physics, electronics, and mechanical engineering as well. Therefore, Nanoptic Research Lab. is carrying out the leading research in the field of micro flow diagnosis which is required for industrialization of bio-chip related technology, and at the same time it is performing a leading activity for research cooperation system with the leading scientists of domestic and overseas. The scientists in cooperation with Nanoptic Research Lab. or advisory boards are as below, and Nanoptic will establish more joint research with more various institutions in the future.

- Prof. Chong H. Ahn : Univ.of Cincinnati.
- Prof. Carl D. Meinhart : Univ.of California at Santa Barbara.
- Prof. Akikazu Kaga : Osaka University.

- Prof. Alexander G. Poleshchuk : IA&E SB RAS