DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The bioterrorism attacks of 2001 highlighted the acute need for rapid, ultra-sensitive, cost-effective, and user-friendly tests to simultaneously screen for multiple types of biowarfare agents at the point of exposure. The goal of the proposed project is to… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Following a bioterrorist attack, hundreds of thousands of potential victims may require testing and treatment. The critical need to test large numbers of people for exposure to a biothreat agent may overwhelm the capacity of the clinical and public health… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to develop a novel testing platform for enabling rapid, ultrasensitive, accurate, user-friendly, and cost-effective point-of-care respiratory diagnostics for viral infections. Viral respiratory infections res ult in hundreds of thousands of deaths and… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to develop a novel testing platform to enable rapid, ultrasensitive, accurate, user-friendly, and cost-effective screening for the antibiotic resistant bacteria that frequently cause serious hospital acquired infections. Every year, nearly 100,000… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Following a major bioterrorism attack or infectious disease outbreak, millions of potential victims may require rapid testing to ensure delivery of life-saving therapeutic treatment to those who need it. Because today t here is no diagnostic method capable of… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to develop a novel automated platform to enable rapid, sensitive, user-friendly, and cost-effective screening for the antibiotic resistant bacteria that frequently cause serious healthcare associated infections. Every year, about 100,000 deaths result… More