The Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University (C-THAN)
The Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University (C-THAN) is one of the six centers that comprise POCTRN, the NIH's Point-of-Care Technology Research Network.
Explore below to discover more about C-THAN's strategy to promote the development of a pipeline of point-of-care technologies to meet the clinical needs of people who live with HIV/AIDS and emerging infectious diseases in low-resource settings.
- Publications: Discover the current work of our C-THAN collaborators.
- Projects: Learn about the projects C-THAN partners and institutions have worked on in concentration areas of HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, cervical and liver cancer and more.
C-THAN utilizes collaborative research projects to develop novel point-of-care technologies aimed at improving diagnosis and treatment monitoring of HIV/AIDS, HIV-associated co-morbidities, or emerging infectious diseases in low-resource settings. 2025 proposals are currently being reviewed.
C-THAN SolicitationLatest News from C-THAN
C-THAN Contributions to Tuberculosis Diagnosis
Announcing our Year 7 Pilots, whose work is well underway:
- Matthew Burton with Detact Diagnostics BV for “Rapid detection of TB using VIPER technology”
- Kevin Jones with Health Group (X-HG) for “Transfer of rapid test technology”
- Judd Hultquist with Northwestern University for “Advances in Multiplexed Diagnostic Platforms for Rapid Quantitative Detection of HIV, HBV, and HCV”
- Bonolo Mathekga with Drizzle Health for “MagnaSlide: Enhancing the diagnostic accuracy of Tuberculosis (TB) tests for People Living with HIV (PLHIV)
- Ernesta Meintjes from University of Cape Town for point-of-care low-field magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of tuberculosis meningitis (TBM) in children
The Point-of-Care Technology Research Network (POCTRN) Year 8 Solicitation
Lateral Flow Development Presentation
C-THAN site PI and working group lead David AuCoin, of University of Nevada Reno, offers insight to Lateral Flow development in this narrated PowerPoint presentation.
Tuberculosis History Video
C-THAN South African PI Grant Theron, with Stellenbosch University, recently provided the following primer on tuberculosis history and recent advances.
Leadership
For more information, contact C-THAN via email at c-than@northwestern.edu.