Thursday, June 25, 2020
A researcher at Waterloo Engineering has won $265,000 in federal backing to develop a palm-sized device capable of detecting COVID-19 infection within 30 minutes.
Carolyn Ren, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, will lead the one-year project by a team that includes professors Emmanuel Ho of the School of Pharmacy at Waterloo and Keith Fowke of the University of Manitoba.
The project builds on Ren’s work on microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technology to develop a portable, point-of-care instrument to rapidly diagnose COVID-19.
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