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Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern
Focus: to support the development and facilitate commercialization of a pipeline of point-of-care technologies designed to meet the clinical needs of people at high-risk or living with HIV/AIDS or impacted by emerging infectious diseases in low-resource settings.
C-THAN was initially funded in 2018 for a five-year period and renewed in 2023 for five more years by the Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network (POCTRN+), National Institutes for Health. C-THAN’s mission is to support the development and facilitate commercialization of a pipeline of point-of-care technologies designed to meet the clinical needs of people at high-risk or living with HIV/AIDS or impacted by emerging infectious diseases in low-resource settings.
HIV disproportionately impacts settings and areas with limited medical resources and/or infrastructure, with the heaviest disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa. C-THAN supports the development of point-of-care technologies specifically designed for local needs in the diagnosis and management of HIV, HIV-associated co-morbidities, and emerging infectious diseases. C-THAN has assembled a scientific consortium made up of Northwestern University and nine other universities strategically placed to address this mission.