Dr. Wong’s work on improving point of care diagnostics for the detection of TB won first prize in the “Innovations / New Technologies / Improvement Science” track at the annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Meeting. More info on the work can be found in the following publications: Annals of Global Health Analytical Chemistry
The Klapperich Lab Senior Project Team won second place at the North East Bioengineering Conference last week. Congratulations to Courtney, Nelson, Gil and Danielle!
Colorimetric Detection of Azidothymidine Using an Alkyne-Modified Dextran Substrate George W. Pratt , Andy Fan , and Catherine M. Klapperich * College of Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States ABSTRACT Monitoring the adherence of patients taking highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is a key step in treating an HIV infection, especially in resource-limited settings in the developing world. For most […]
See an article about our article at http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/web/2014/12/Improving-Disease-Detection-Little-Heat.html Evaporative Concentration on a Paper-Based Device to Concentrate Analytes in a Biological Fluid Sharon Y. Wong †, Mario Cabodi †‡, Jason Rolland§, and Catherine M. Klapperich *† † Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 44 Cummington Mall, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States ‡ Center for Nanoscience and Nanobiotechnology, Boston University, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States […]
Important text on Global Health Education now available open source! From CUGH: 2nd Edition of Developing Global Health Programming By Jessica Evert, Paul Drain, and Thomas Hall The 2nd edition of Global Health Programming: A Guidebook by Medical and Professional Schools by Jessica Evert, Paul Drain, and Thomas Hall can be viewed in its entirety […]
Yash Adhikari, Angela Lai, Timothy Mon and Leslie Kimball Nordstrom have won the COE Societal Impact Award for Undergraduate Capstone Project in 2014! “An Integrated Microfluidic Device for Diagnosing Neisseria gonorrhea”
Congratulations, Dr. Keller! Title: “A Microfluidic Platform for Quantitative Analysis of Single Mycobacteria Cells” Committee: James Galagan (Advisor) Catherine Klapperich (Advisor) Ahmad S. Khalil (Chair) Mario Cabodi Daniel Segrè Abstract: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), is the leading bacterial cause of death worldwide. A significant barrier to global MTB eradication is ‘latent’ […]
Watch the team’s youtube video here! Senior Project Team
A nice article on the work of Byrnes et al. in Chemistry World!
Congrats to Jake, Sam, Andy, Frank and Mark! A portable, pressure driven, room temperature nucleic acid extraction and storage system for point of care molecular diagnostics Samantha Byrnes,b Andy Fan,b Jacob Trueb,a Francis Jareczek,b Mark Mazzochette,b Andre Sharon,ac Alexis F. Sauer-Budgebc and Catherine M. Klapperich*ab Show Affiliations Anal. Methods, 2013, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C3AY40162F