An interdisciplinary team led by Cornell has received a five-year grant to launch a new center for engineering, testing and commercializing point-of-care diagnostic devices that will have international reach.
The center, Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection and Cancer for Global Health , will be led by David Erickson, the Sibley College Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Cornell Engineering, and Dr. Saurabh Mehta, the Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, which is housed jointly in the College of Human Ecology and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Dr. Saurabh Mehta, the Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell, University Teams at McGill University and Columbia University, led by McGill professor Dr. Nitika Pai and Columbia professor Samuel Sia, will provide training and help build capacity for the developers as they tailor their technology and develop business plans to bring their products from lab to market.
"How do we make impact in a much-needed area right now and amplify or multiply it? That basically is the goal," Mehta said. "We have been doing this through individual projects. We have worked with almost all of the included partners on this center, individually or in some capacity. This center brings all of that under a single umbrella for maximal real-world impact."
Erickson sees PORTENT as benefiting two types of developers: those who have a problem and those who have a solution.
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