The Gates Foundation has awarded Prompt Diagnostics a Grand Challenges grant to develop a low-cost, automated platform integrating blood sample input, plasma separation, and HIV RNA extraction for HIV diagnostic testing.
The platform is based on Prompt’s magnetofluidic cartridge technology, using magnetic beads to separate plasma from blood and extract HIV RNA for diagnostic testing. The team will build and test a prototype cartridge and a low-cost, battery-powered device to house it, evaluating performance against standard clinical laboratory procedures.
Read more about the Grand Challenges initiative here.