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Webinar: Overview of Long COVID

Jason Maley, MD discusses his work on recovery and long-term outcomes for patients and families after critical illness and COVID-19

WhenToTest.org Develops Tool to Guide Individuals on COVID-19 Testing

New Online Resource Helps Individuals and Families Gather Safely Based on their Personalized Risk Factors

Independent Test Assessment Program (ITAP)

To accelerate regulatory review and availability of high-quality, accurate, and reliable over-the-counter COVID-19 tests to the public.

Webinar: Lessons Learned from 2020 Provide a Springboard for Increased Telehealth Adoption

Healthcare providers, payers, suppliers and innovators, and patients all have a role, a choice to make telehealth part of the solution.

COVID-19 Testing Is Here to Stay: The Intersection Between Vaccination and Testing

Mara Aspinall explores the challenges from Delta, vaccination, and COVID-19 testing

New COVID-19 Lab Pool Testing: Operational Playbook Launches on WhenToTest.org

Webinar: CORE Response: Empowering Communities to Effectively Respond to the Evolving Pandemic in the U.S. and Overseas

WhenToTest.org Develops Online Tools for Effective COVID-19 Testing

New Resources Help Schools and Businesses Reduce the Risk of an Outbreak

RADx Tech Webinar Series: A Year of RADx Tech

Please join us as we recognize the accomplishments of this past year's RADx Tech program.

Global View of COVID-19: A Pan-African Perspective

Our panelists are leaders in their country's response to addressing the pandemic in the face of limited resources.

RADx Pooling Task Force

Pooling Overview, Key Development Challenges for Central Laboratories and Point of Care (POC) Solutions, Regulatory Guidance for Pooling, and Implementation Examples

Webinar: COVID-19 Vaccines: How did we get here and where are we going?

Please join us as we review how the currently available COVID-19 vaccines were developed and the evaluation process that led to their emergency use authorizations.

Up to 100K and Mentorship Available for Innovative Neurotechnologies

POCTRN at CIMIT seeks groundbreaking collaborative research projects in the early stages of translation to improve the diagnosis and/or treatment of disorders of the nervous system.

RADx Tech: A New Paradigm for MedTech Development

IEEE Special Issue highlighting the insights, lessons learned, and critical components of RADx Tech

RADx Tech II: Fast-Track Program to Advance U.S. COVID-19 Testing Capabilities

Funding Opportunity

Acceleration of Sustainable K-12 School Re-openings for In-person Learning

How testing can, and should, be integrated into school re-openings as the final step to build confidence in the safety of in-person learning

The RADx Tech Process

Accelerating Innovation for COVID-19 Testing

Returning to In-Person Instruction for K-12 Schools

Strategic Vision and Tactical Tools

RADx Webinar: The Epidemiology of COVID-19

What can we learn from this pandemic and from past pandemics, like HIV, to help us turn the corner on this one and prepare for the next one?

binx health Receives FDA CLIA Waiver for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Test, Expanding Critical Access to Single-Visit Diagnoses

First ever 30-minute, CLIA-waived, molecular PCR Test for CT/NG now available for OBGYN, physician offices and retail settings holding certificates of waiver

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Impact on IVD Testing

Learn more about COVID-19 Variants and their impact on the testing environment

WhenToTest.org

The calculator compares testing options and gives organizations the data they need to make informed decisions to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

Future potential of Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx Tech) in molecular diagnostics

While necessity is the mother of invention, anomalies have formed the basis for most disruptive discoveries that seed innovations in the sciences.

POCTRN Solicitation 2021

Do you have a promising point-of-care medical technology in need of further development?

RADx Tech Webinar Series: A Path to In-Person Instruction

On-Campus Pooling in a Pod Testing for COVID-19

RADx Tech Webinar Series: Innovation During the Pandemic: Personal Protection Testing Booths for COVID-19

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NIH-funded COVID-19 home test is first to receive over-the-counter authorization from FDA

Ellume USA’s rapid at-home test was developed through the NIH RADx Initiative.

Rebuilding Trust in Air Travel: Using Alternative Data to Help Airports Respond to COVID-19

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University Lab Partners Selected by CIMIT to Partner in their Project to Support the NIH RADx Initiative

ULP and CIMIT will partner to support the NIH RADx Initiative

NIH RADx Initiative Advances Six New COVID-19 Testing Technologies

A third round of contract awards for scale-up and manufacturing of new COVID-19 testing technologies

RADx Tech Webinar Series: Delivering New COVID-19 Technologies to Close the Testing Gap in the US Market

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Overcoming Challenges With the Adoption of Point-of-Care Testing

From Technology Push and Clinical Needs to Value Propositions

NIH Continues to Boost National COVID-19 Testing Capacity

New laboratory and point-of-care tests to enable access and rapid results

The Forsyth Institute Serving as a Critical Resource for COVID-19 Saliva Diagnostic Test Development

Forsyth Institute to work with the NIH RADx initiative

Webinar: Covid-19 Testing

Moving from Clinical Settings into the Community

Webinar: Insights from User Discussions on COVID-19 Testing in Non-Traditional Settings

A Northwestern team led by Kara Palamountain will be presenting preliminary findings and takeaways on user needs and opportunities for COVID-19 testing

Webinar: Returning to Normal Activities

A Modeling Tool to Assist in Planning

NIH delivering new COVID-19 testing technologies to meet U.S. demand

Range of new technologies will meet testing needs in diverse settings

NIH LIVE QA Session

Watch Dr. Francis Collins, NIH Director, and Dr. Bruce Tromberg, NIBIB Director discuss the first seven technologies contracted with the NIH RADx program.

PathogenDx Receives Federal Grant From the NIH As Part of the RADx Program

The capital will be used to scale up testing capacity of PathogenDx's Microarray Assay for COVID-19 testing nationally

Rapid Scaling Up of Covid-19 Diagnostic Testing in the United States — The NIH RADx Initiative

Explore this NEJM article on the RADx Initiative

3M and MIT Researchers Developing a Rapid Diagnostic Test for COVID-19

The goal is a new, highly accurate, mass-produced low-cost diagnostic device that delivers results in minutes.

RADx Tech COVID19 Webinar Series: As the Coronavirus Pandemic Unfolds...

Yukari Manabe, MD discusses the challenges of COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics

RADx Tech COVID19 Webinar Series: Regulatory Affairs on the RADx Frontlines

Perspective from a Point-of-Care Technology Research Center with Erika Tyburski

RADx Tech COVID19 Webinar Series: As the Coronavirus Pandemic Unfolds...

Andrew J. DiMeo, Sr., Ph.D. discusses user centered design for the rapid acceleration of diagnostics for COVID-19

RADx-UP Funding Opportunities and Webinar

Learn more about RADx-Up opportunities

Francis Collins Testifies Before Congress, May 7, 2020

Watch Dr. Francis Collins testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions as part of a hearing titled “Shark Tank: New Tests for COVID-19

NIH Announces $1 Million Prize Competition to Target Global Disease Diagnostics

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to offer supplementary support for designs that can be developed into products on a rapid timeframe

GLUE Lecture: Establishing a Viable Business Model for your Medical Device

POCTRN CRAASH 2020

Check out the scenes from the kick-off session.

POCTRN Solicitation 2020

Do you have a promising point-of-care medical technology in need of further development?

GLUE Lecutre Series: Channeling your Inner MacGyver

Engineers and physicians working together to creatively and effectively address clinical needs in low resource settings.

Use of a Rapid Diagnostic for Chlamydia Trachomatis and Neisseria Gonorrhoeae for Women in the Emergency Department Can Improve Clinical Management

Report of a Randomized Clinical Trial

GLUE Lecture Series: Tales from the ICU

Learn from critical care specialists about ICU opportunities for technological innovation.

IEEE EMB HI-POCT Conference

Keynote Speakers & Sessions' Agenda Announced

Webinar: Clinical Trials - Information To Help You Plan Your Next Steps

Webinar: Point of Care Tests

How Can We Learn What Clinicians and Patients Want?

Webinar: Understanding the FDA - Accelerating the Pathway to Approval for Point-of-Care Technologies

Join Susan Tiedy-Stevenson as she discusses how to accelerate your way along the path to FDA approval.

RADx: Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx^sm) initiative was formed to accelerate the development, validation, and commercialization of innovative point-of-care and home-based tests, as well as improvements to clinical laboratory tests, that can directly detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Publication reveals essential ingredients of the groundbreaking NIH RADx national diagnostics effort

Innovative COVID-19 Testing RADx Tech Reports Unveiled in Special Issue of IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Luminostics Announces FDA Authorization and Production Scale-Up of US-Manufactured Smartphone-Based COVID-19 Rapid Test

RADx Expects COVID-19 Portfolio to Accelerate an Era of At-Home Infectious Disease Testing (Login Required)

VIC Foundry, Inc. Receives NIH RADx Funding for Development of an At-home Molecular Diagnostic Test for COVID-19

Ceres Nanosciences Opens Advanced Particle Manufacturing Plant in Northern Virginia to Expand Nanotrap® Particle Manufacturing Capacity for COVID-19 Testing

COVID-19 Testing: Three Breakthrough Solutions in the RADx Initiative

NIH Director: Collaboration Amid Chaos, and Biden’s First 100 Days - How Francis Collins sees the COVID response changing with the new administration

The National Strategy From the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness

Winners of HHS Design-a-thon to Develop Innovative Digital Health Tools for COVID-19 At-Anywhere Diagnostic Tests Announced

The Need for More and Better Testing for COVID-19