Abstract

Challenges and Solutions of Lab-on-a-Chip and In Vitro Diagnostic Devices: From Test Development to High Throughput Production

Hans Dijk, Managing Director, Scienion AG

Diagnostic test production might currently face several challenges. Among them, the high price of the capturing molecules and their precise immobilisation within a given surface. Therefore, saving precious samples and reagents are key to minimize costs. Handling small amounts of liquids with tiny dead volumes is a key part to achieve this. Advances in technology have allowed over the years to dispense less and less reagent per test in a very precise location and to dispense multiple other analytes onto the same test area. In other words, ultra-low volume handling technology has enable a significant decrease in production costs by miniaturising and multiplexing these tests. Scienion provides a single picoliter liquid handling technology to address all miniaturization aspects of rapid tests from early research to full scale production technologies.