Projects - C-THAN

Current C-THAN Projects

  1. Development of HCV Core Antigen Test to Detect Active Hepatitis C Infection – Principal Investigator: Sally McFall – Prime Institution: Northwestern University, USA
  2. Smartphone-based Measurement of TST Induration for Latent TB Screening – Principal Investigator: Tania Douglas – Prime Institution: University of Cape Town, South Africa
  3. Acute HIV Detection Assays with Isothermal Amplification and Strand Displacement Visualization – Principal Investigator: Julius Lucks – Prime Institution: Northwestern University, USA
  4. Optimization of Sputum Collection Cup for Reduction in Rejection Rates of Sputum Specimens – Principal Investigator: Chris de Villiers – Prime Institution: Sinapi Biomedical, South Africa
  5. Fluorescent p24 Ag assay to increase sensitivity of early infant diagnosis of HIV – Principal Investigators: Diana Hardie & Sally McFall – Prime Institutions: University of Cape Town, South Africa & Northwestern University, USA
  6. Highly Sensitive Multiplex qPCR for detecting HIV associated tuberculosis (TB) and non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infection" – Principal Investigators: Souleymane Diallo & Mamoudou Maiga – Prime Institutions: University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali & Northwestern University, USA
  7. SAX-TB tool to salvage DNA from Xpert cartridges – Principal Investigator: Grant Theron – Prime Institution: Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
  8. Oral Swab Diagnosis of HIV-TB – Principal Investigators: Gerard Cangelosi – Prime Institution: University of Washington, USA
  9. Patterned Blood Spot Cards – Principal Investigator: Charles R. Mace – Prime Institution: Tufts University, USA
  10. Simple reaction detection of HIV-1 resistance in resource limited settings – Principal Investigator: Mario Stevenson – Prime Institution: Discidium Biosciences, LLC, USA
  11. Lateral flow immunoassay for rapid detection of Hepatitis B core related antigen (HBcrAg) to aid in management of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection – Principal Investigator: David Aucoin – Prime Institution: University of Nevada, Reno, USA
  12. Optimized Sample Transportation to support POC deployment - Information Sharing and Motorcycle Routing in Diagnostic Networks – Principal Investigator: Mphatso Kachule – Prime Institution: Riders for Health, Malawi
  13. POC HIV Viral Load Assay for Low-Resource Communities– Principal Investigator: Benjamin Miller – Prime Institution: University of Rochester, USA
  14. Field-friendly creatinine test – Principal Investigator: Mark Styczynski – Prime Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
  15. A whole blood TB/HIV LF assay – Principal Investigator: Nick Borain – Prime Institution: Lateral Flow Laboratories, South Africa
  16. Automated TB Sputum Microscopy – Principal Investigator: Mamoudou Maiga – Prime Institution: Northwestern University, USA
  17. Rapid Test for HIV, HBV & HCV – Principal Investigators: Anthony Sorge and Robert Gish– Prime Institution: Genlantis Diagnostics Inc., USA
  18. HPV in MSM using GeneXpert – Principal Investigator: Almoustapha I. Maiga – Prime Institution: University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Mali
  19. Sinapi Sputum Collection Cup – Principal Investigator: Chris de Villiers – Prime Institution: Sinapi Biomedical, South Africa
  20. Cervical Cancer Screening Tool – Principal Investigator:  Yinan Zheng – Prime Institution: Northwestern University, USA
  21. HIV early infant diagnosis-EID – Principal Investigator:  David A. Anderson – Prime Institution: Burnet Institute, Australia
  22. Novel POC diagnostic for HBV – Principal Investigator:  David P AuCoin – Prime Institution: University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, USA
  23. Minute Syphilis HIV Assay – Principal Investigator:  Kevin D Jones – Prime Institution: Webb DX, USA
  24. TB Diagnostics/HIV Patients – Principal Investigator:  Swomitra K Mohanty – Prime Institution: University of Utah, USA
  25. HIV DNA/RNA RT-LAMP detection – Principal Investigator:  Regina E Oladokun – Prime Institution: University of Ibadan, Nigeria
  26. Diagnostics for viral hepatitis – Principal Investigator: Claudia Hawkins – Prime Institution: Northwestern University, USA