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BU Precision Diagnostics Center 2021 Virtual Conference
Missed the event or content? Check out the Recorded Talks The Precision Diagnostics Center will be hosting a virtual conference highlighting the efforts of universities over the past year to implement Covid-19 surveillance and testing programs. Starting early March of 2020, many campuses made critical decisions to shut down and start remote... More
Check out last years PDC Symposium!
Spring 2020 Symposium: The Future of Biosensing in Wearables and the Point of Care Wearable Tech & Healthcare: What’s Next? The Future of Biosensing in Wearables and the Point of Care: The Inaugural Precision Diagnostics Center Symposium 02.24.20 Boston University Photonics Center Trisha Andrew, PhD, UMass Amherst Edward Damiano, PhD, Boston University James Galagan, PhD, Boston University Wei... More
The Brink – Meet the Team behind BU’s COVID-19 Testing Lab
How University engineers built a 6,000-test-per-day system from scratch The Brink - Video Learn more about DAMP Lab and their services.
BU Today – Q&A: How BU Plans to Test Students, Faculty, and Staff for COVID-19
ENG’s Catherine Klapperich on how self-sampling, robots, and a new lab will help make campus as safe as possible -BU Today
PDC @ Research on Tap: Wearables and Biosensors for Environmental and Human Health
December 2, 2020 from 4-5:30 PM Online Seminar Hosted by Cathie Klapperich Sensitive and more portable sensing platforms will allow us to quantify and predict how the world around us impacts human health and the environment. Monitoring the various chemicals and biomolecules around us and in our bodies is important in a... More
BU Today: BU Details Campuswide COVID-19 Testing Plan for Fall
Find out about BU's Testing Plan for the Fall Semester! "Our plans to return to campus operations with new protocols and policies will enable us to reconstitute the vibrant residential community that is the foundation of the learning environment that our students and their parents expect from Boston University. —President Robert A. More
RNA and DNA Extraction Protocols for Research
A list of useful protocols for research labs working on point of care molecular diagnostics can be found here.
November PDC Trainee Seminar Series
PDC Research Team Awarded Kilachand Award
"In 2018, BU trustee Rajen Kilachand (Questrom’74, Hon.’14) made the largest gift in Boston University’s history: $115 million. From that gift, $100 million established an endowment, the Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, to support interdisciplinary research and solutions to some of today’s most vexing societal woes... More
CTSI: 8th Annual Translational Science Symposium
From Server to Bedside: Advancing Health & Healthcare Through Data Science The Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (BU-CTSI) is pleased to announce its 8th Annual Translational Science Symposium. Featuring ground breaking health data science research and policy initiatives. Joseph J. Frassica, MD Chief Medical Officer & Head of Research the Americas, Philips Professor... More