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NIH announces finalists of endometriosis diagnostics competition

Meet the researchers developing rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases

Yuka Manabe and her team at the Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases aim to improve global health with point-of-care tests that give rapid results

Funding Opportunity: ITAP for Multiplex POC and OTC Diagnostics for COVID-19 and Flu

Global collaboration funds new projects to advance cancer detection technologies

CITEC announces first round of subawardees

NIH announces awards to advance tech for HIV viral load detection

NIH announces prize winners in year-long challenge to develop fetal diagnostic and monitoring technologies

NIH announces winners of prize competition to improve postpartum maternal health and health equity through innovative diagnostics

Learning How to Translate and Commercialize Neurotechnology

RADx® Tech Independent Test Assessment Program (ITAP) for Hepatitis B Virus

National Institutes of Health award $17 million for projects in the Blueprint MedTech Program

Funding Opportunity for Neurotech Innovations: Apply for funding up to $500K

Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Technology (RADx® Tech) Advancing Cures and Therapies and ending ENDOmetriosis diagnostic delays (ACT ENDO) Challenge

Building Bridges Across NIH and the Broader Engineering Community

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

FDA Permits Marketing of First Point-of-Care Hepatitis C RNA Test

Test Enables Single-Visit Testing and Treatment for Hepatitis C

New Funding Opportunity for HIV Viral Load Monitoring Point-of-Care Technologies

CITEC's Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D, finds her niche in global health

CITEC's Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D., a longtime bioengineer in academia who has contributed globally to improving women's health, is featured for International Women's Day.

NIH awards interim prizes in fetal diagnostic and monitoring technology competition

POCTRN Unveils Six New Funding Opportunities to Propel Point-of-Care Technologies

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POCTRN 2024 Solicitation: Now Accepting Applications

New Funding Opportunity for Point-of-Care Technology Innovators

Funding Opportunity: Blueprint Medtech Winter Award Competition

Independent Test Assessment Program (ITAP) for Diagnostic Mpox Lesion Panel Test Validation and Regulatory Authorization

Rice-led TMC-based research center will develop affordable global health technologies for early cancer detection

Rice, Baylor, MD Anderson experts lead international team establishing the Center for Innovation and Translation of POC Technologies for Equitable Cancer Care

BCM Global Programs to serve as clinical core for NIH Point of Care Technologies Research Network

Baylor College of Medicine Global Programs and the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center will serve as the clinical core for the Center for Innovation and Translation of Point of Care Technologies for Equitable Cancer Care (CITEC)

St. John’s Research Institute part of global collaborative effort to develop point-of-care diagnostic technologies

The newly established Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer for Global Health (PORTENT) Center led by Dr. David Erickson at Cornell Engineering and Dr. Saurabh Mehta, the Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, USA will initially be up to a 5-year initiative.

C-THAN Receives up to $8 Million in Funding over Five Years

The Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University (C-THAN), housed within Northwestern Engineering’s Center for Innovation Global Health Technologies (CIGHT), has received up to $8 million in renewal funding over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

UMass Chan and UMass Lowell’s point-of-care technology initiative awarded $8.9 million renewal

UMass Chan Medical School and UMass Lowell have received an $8.9 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for renewed support of their initiative to advance the development of home-based and point-of-care health technologies.

NIH to address unmet clinical needs in testing, monitoring, and treatment technologies

Grants continue support of Point of Care Technology Research Network

Research and Innovation Translation Partnerships in Point-of-Care Technologies Conference and Technology Showcase

A two-day conference with researchers, technology developers, clinicians, and industry partners.

NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Technology (RADx® Tech) Fetal Monitoring Challenge

$2 million in prizes to accelerate the development of diagnostic and monitoring technologies to reduce the risk of fetal morbidity and mortality and thus improve fetal and neonatal health outcomes.

Best Practices Resource for Developing COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests

Funding Opportunity: Blueprint MedTech Summer Award Competition

At-Home Testing: Advancing Data Connectivity, Timely Reporting, and Access to Treatment

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NIH selects next round of winners in the RADx® Tech for Maternal Health Challenge

Prizes awarded for promising technologies intended to improve postpartum outcomes

Webinar - Long Covid: A Crisis for Neurology

Long COVID presents with a multitude of heterogeneous symptoms predominantly neurological in nature.

Webinar: RADx Tech Accessible Tests Program - Best Practices

Since the Spring of 2022, RADx Tech has been working to make COVID-19 home tests more accessible. Watch the recording.

Funding Opportunity: Blueprint MedTech Spring Award Competition

Webinar - COVID Vaccines: Immunity and Variants

The rapid development of multiple COVID-19 vaccines has been a triumph of biomedical research, and billions of vaccine doses have been administered worldwide.

Webinar: RADx Tech Accessible Tests Program

This program applied the RADx Tech process to evaluate and support test companies, but at the same time, required new unique resources and capabilities.

NIH Lauches MakeMyTestCount

A website to anonymously report results of COVID-19 at-home tests

NIH MedTech program aims to accelerate medical devices to treat, diagnose nervous system disorders

Pilot phase provides funding to seven projects that successfully navigated shark tank reviews

ITAP Multiplex Point-of-Care (POC) Diagnostic Tests

New Funding Opportunity: Have an innovative solution to detect HIV viral load?

Projects up-to $500k available to accelerate technologies towards use in point-of-care settings

The Role Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Tech Continues to Play in the Covid-19 Pandemic and Next Steps

Funding Opportunity: Up-to $500K Available for Innovative Neurotechnologies

Webinar - Monkeypox: Emergence of a Global Public Health Threat

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RADx Tech COVID-19 Funding Opportunity High-Performance COVID-19 Rapid Tests

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RADx Tech COVID-19 Funding Opportunity: COVID-19 Home Tests Accessible to People with Disabilities

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NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Technology (RADx® Tech) for Maternal Health Challenge

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RADx Tech for Maternal Health Informational Webinar

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Webinar - RADx® Initiative & COVID-19 Solutions: Bioengineering at Unprecedented Speed and Scale

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Webinar: RADx Tech - Two Years in Retrospect and the Future in Perspective

Dr. Bruce Tromberg reflects on the RADx Tech experiment and experiences. He will also share his thoughts about future challenges and opportunities.

Webinar: Wastewater Surveillance for COVID-19 and Other Infectious Diseases

Case Studies in Atlanta, Georgia, Accra, Ghana, and Kolkata, India

Webinar: Beyond Epitope Mapping

Using Deep Mutational Scanning to Generate a Complete Map of SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Antibody Escape Mutations

Webinar: Medtech/Lifesciences Manufacturing in the United States

Challenges, Opportunities, and What Lies Ahead - Register by April 4th

Webinar: Communicating COVID Safety Practices

In this talk we share two related public education initiatives, My COVID Toolkit and WhenToTest

Webinar: Immune Control and Evasion of Viral Infection

The Walker Laboratory focuses on learning from patients to determine how the body fights back against viral infection.

Webinar: Pathogen Surveillance for Emergent Epidemics

In this talk, we will discuss how the Rockefeller Foundation's Pandemic Prevention Institute is building a collaborative, global network that will ensure data are translated into public health action and pathogen containment.

Webinar: The Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Effects on Viral Detection Tests

On February 25, 2022, The RADx initiative created a Variant Task Force (VTF) to assess the impact of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants on diagnostic testing.

POCTRN Solicitation 2022

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

Webinar: The Epidemiology of Omicron

On January 18, 2022, Dr. Bill Hanage will discuss the current knowledge of Omicron epidemiology based on observations from early outbreak areas.

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

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

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

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

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

Webinar: Ensuring Success of Point of Care Technologies with a Systems Engineering Approach

James Stahl, MD, CM, MPH discusses how a Systems Engineering approach to developing disruptive point-of-care technologies can help overcome the many barriers to successful clinical adoption.

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