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Cambridge nonprofit Diagnostics for All, which is working to create simple, low-cost, point-of-care diagnostics for use in emerging countries, particularly areas far from hospitals, has received a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The grant will support a global health research project conducted by Roozbeh Ghaffari, principal investigator for Diagnostics For All and startup MC10 Inc., a flexible electronics company collaborating with Diagnostics for All, according to a report on Boston.com, Ghaffari is recognized as an expert in microfluidics technology and the micromechanics of thin biological tissues. According to Diagnostics for All, the project receiving the grant is focused on more easily diagnosing HIV.
Diagnostics for All was an MIT $100K Business Plan Competition winner in 2008. In December, the organization named Una S. Ryan as CEO. Ryan, a 2004 Mass High Tech All-Star honoree, had been CEO of waste-water treatment startup Waltham Technologies and remains active with that company. She previously served as CEO of Avant Immunotherapeutics Inc., now named Celldex Therapeutics Inc.
The Gates Foundation, established by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, supports efforts to improve people’s health and to fight hunger and poverty.
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