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New Diagnostic Tools for Managing Fever in MSF Settings
Ethan Guillen, Dx program manager, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), United States of America

Many patients present to Médecins Sans Frontières with fevers that are difficult to diagnose. There is a need for affordable, robust, semi-open source multiplex diagnostic platforms at the referral level to identify the fever-causing pathogen, antibiotic susceptibility, and bacterial infections.

Advanced Molecular Based Point of Care Diagnostics in Low Resource Settings
Aman Russom, Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Microfluidic Acoustic Flow Cytometry: A Pathway to Point-of-Care and High-Speed Parallel Cellular Diagnostics
Steven Graves, Professor, University of New Mexico; President & CEO, BennuBio Inc., United States of America

I will present our work to develop synergistic technologies that dramatically reduce the cost, size, and operational requirements of an individual flow cytometer, while simultaneously enabling highly parallel flow cytometry analysis of multiple flow streams to dramatically increase analytical throughput.

Coffee & Networking in Exhibition Hall

Highly Integrated Sample-to-Answer Microfluidic Cartridges for Diagnostic and Life Science Applications
Holger Becker, Chief Scientific Officer, Microfluidic ChipShop GmbH, Germany

The presentation will describe the development strategy for microfluidics-enabled integrated sample-to-answer cartridges for diagnostic applications. Various examples for molecular, immunological and cell-based diagnostic assays will be given.

Focal Molography: A Diffraction-limited Focal Spot Robustly Monitors Biological Interactions in Real-time in Complex Samples
Andreas Frutiger, Researcher, ETH Zurich , Switzerland

Lunch & Networking in Exhibition Hall

Poster Viewing Session

Free Workshop
Translating Customers Ideas into Microstructured Smart Polymer Parts Workshop

POC Blood Coagulation Monitoring Using Paper-Based Lateral Flow Devices
Andrew Steckl, Gieringer Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, University Distinguished Research Professor, University of Cincinnati, United States of America

We will discuss the key POC application of paper microfluidics in the monitoring of blood coagulation properties. This is a critical factor for patients undergoing anti-coagulation therapy for cardiovascular disease, requiring frequent monitoring.

Drug Quantification in Whole Blood within Microstructures for Point-Of-Care Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
Jean-Manuel Segura, Professor, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland Valais, Switzerland

The talk will present our recent results towards the development a point-of-care device for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. In particular, an assay enabling the quantification of small drugs in whole blood using paper-like microchambers for filtering and measurement will be discussed.

Silicon Photonics Point-of-care Biosensor Platforms
Peter Bienstman, Professor, Ghent University, Belgium

We present low-cost biosensor platforms in silicon photonics, showing applications in protein and DNA detection, as well as detection of conformational changes of molecules.

Coffee & Networking in Exhibition Hall

Paper as a High-Tech Material for Printed Point-of-Care Sensors
Firat Guder, Assistant Professor, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

In this presentation, I will talk about our latest work on paper-based sensors and how they enable new classes of low-cost technologies for point-of-care diagnostics.

Drinks Reception in Exhibition Hall

End of Day One

Priority POC Diagnostic Tests for Developing Countries and Emerging Markets
Bill Rodriguez, Chief Medical Officer, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Switzerland

Coffee & Networking in Exhibition Hall

Analytical Testing Opportunities to Support Autologous Gene Therapy
Chaminda Salgado, Cell & Gene Therapy Medicinal Process Delivery Leader, GlaxoSmithKline, United Kingdom

The talk walks through the very unique challenges in commercialising autologous ex-vivo gene therapies, a potential new market for POC diagnostic technologies.

Microfluidics Devices for Affordable Diagnosis of Tuberculosis and Sickle Cell Anaemia
Debjani Paul, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Presentation summary: I will describe a point-of-care diagnostic test for sickle cell disease using a mobile phone microscope and a microfluidic imaging chip.

Lunch & Networking in Exhibition Hall

Poster Viewing Session

Free Workshop
The Fast Tracking Medical Diagnostics and Biosensor Technologies to the Market Workshop

Pencil and Paper Diagnostic Devices in The Hands of Untrained Users
Andres Martinez, Professor, California Polytechnic State University, United States of America

A paper-based glucose assay was prepared and performed by a group of untrained users, students in a first-year college chemistry course. Their results provide some important lessons for researchers working with simple point-of-care diagnostics.

A Troponin T Assay with Lab-like Performance at the Point-of-Care using a Novel Immunochemistry Platform
Eloisa Lopez-Calle, Head Assay Formats, Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Germany

A cardiac troponin T assay was developed on a new immunoassay platform technology for its determination with lab-like performance within 11 minutes. The test-carrier consists of a ready-to-use microfluidic disc with fully integrated reagents.

Electrokinetic Size Mobility Trap for Point of Care Analysis
Rosanne Guijt, Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania, Australia

A size mobility trap (SMT) allows for the electrokinetic extraction, concentration and desalting of analytes from complex sample matrices. Examples of the SMT include the quantitative analysis of ampliciilin from whole blood and human serum albumin from urine.

Coffee & Networking in Exhibition Hall

New Lyophilization Strategies Boosting POC Technologies
Thomas Brandstetter, Group Leader, University of Freiburg, Germany

POC-kits suffer often by unsufficient lyophilization strategies, cost-intensive cooled kit delivery and storage. Copolymers will help to get rid of these limitations. qRT-PCR One-Step Master-Mix, an enzyme mix of reverse transcriptase and Taq-Polymerase, will be used as highly relevant demonstrator.

Simple Blood Collection Solutions for the Future for Homecare
Arthur Queval, Founder, Qloudlab, Switzerland

Blood collection solutions for Point-of-Care diagnostics: A comprehensive review and future opportunities.

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