Microfluidics and Bio-Mems

Point-of-care Diagnostics & Global Health

Biomedical engineers have traditionally developed technologies in response to the requirements of the developed world's medical profession . As a result, the diagnostic systems on which they need worked have met the wants of well-funded laboratories in highly regulated and quality-assessed environments. However, such approaches don't address the requirements of the bulk of the world's people afflicted with infectious diseases, who have, at best, access to poorly resourced health care facilities with almost no supporting clinical laboratory infrastructure. a serious challenge for the biomedical engineering community is to develop diagnostic tests to satisfy the requirements of those people, the bulk of whom are within the developing world.