Thursday, June 25, 2020
A researcher at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering has won $265,000 in federal backing to develop a palm-sized device capable of detecting COVID-19 infection
within 30 minutes.
Carolyn Ren, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, will lead the one-year project by a team that includes professors Emmanuel Ho of the School of Pharmacy at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ and Keith Fowke of the University of Manitoba.
The project builds on Ren’s work on microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technology to develop a portable, point-of-care instrument to rapidly diagnose COVID-19.