Noran Khalil is an Honors Bioinformatics senior working closely with Dr. Measor in the microdevices lab. Khalil has presented her research at several large conferences in the U.S.

Khalil started work with Dr. Measor in April of 2025, staying on campus over the summer to work in his microdevices research lab. Her research is primarily in 3D Microfluidics, which involves teeny tiny 3D printed devices built for a specific purpose. The device Khalil worked on was made to isolate and extract DNA strands on a microscopic level, which she proved by using her own saliva.

Khalil presented this project first at Murdock Conference. The Murdock College Science Research Conference is the premier undergraduate natural sciences presentation in the Northwest, hosted and funded every fall by the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust.

The November 2025 Conference was held in Vancouver, Washington, where Khalil and several other Whitworth students were invited to present their research in the poster presentation section of the program.

Khalil continued her research and submitted to the SPIE Conference, an international conference focused on optics and photonics hosted in San Francisco, California this year. She was accepted as one of the only undergraduate presenters, giving a 20-minute talk on her research, titled, “A 3D printed Microfluidic DNA extraction device.”

Khalil said her experiences at Murdock and SPIE were fantastic networking opportunities in her field, and she was even offered a job in Austria after her presentation in San Francisco. She is currently looking into PhD programs in Biomedical Engineering to further her education in this field.