The Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University (C-THAN) seeks proposals on 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. If successful, projects should be viable candidates for commercial development. The application deadline is on June 6, 2025, at 10:59PM CT.
C-THAN was initially funded in 2018 for a five-year period and renewed in 2023 for five more years by the Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network (POCTRN+), National Institutes for Health. C-THAN’s mission is to support the development and facilitate commercialization of a pipeline of point-of-care technologies designed to meet the clinical needs of people at high-risk or living with HIV/AIDS or impacted by emerging infectious diseases in low-resource settings.
The 2025 proposed project must focus on a specific need related to HIV (or associated co-morbidity) prevention, diagnosis, or treatment that address one or more of the National Institutes of Health Priority Areas in low-resource settings; or emerging infectious disease prevention, diagnosis, or treatment in low-resource settings.
C-THAN is prioritizing proposals that focus on HIV viral load monitoring which may include the development of novel viral load diagnostics, technology that enables sample collection and/or plasma separation, field testing of assays in development, or implementation studies of current or near commercial tests. The Center is also prioritizing proposals from teams consisting of investigators based or working in low-resource settings; however, the use of such a technology would be beneficial for patients globally, including high income countries such as the United States.