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BME Seminar Series Winter 2019
Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 4-5 pm
Tech L361
Host: Professor Sally McFall
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
Bringing the Lab to the Patients: Point-of-Care Molecular Diagnostics
Over 90% of current point-of-care diagnostics still reside within hospital settings. How can we unlock these capabilities and make diagnostics accessible to the patients around the world who need them most? I will discuss advances in technologies that will put point-of-care tests into the hands of primary care physicians and concerned citizens themselves in order to rapidly detect and monitor a wide range of diseases. These distributed sample-to-answer tests will require highly accurate, portable sensors with near foolproof operation and interpretation. I will present research from my lab developing microfluidic and paper-fluidic devices that enable rapid diagnosis and real-time wearable monitoring.
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