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The Point of Care Technology Research Network develops technologies with clinical applications using a network model that enhances complementary strengths and builds multidisciplinary partnerships.

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POCTRN and COVID-19

In response to COVID-19 pandemic, POCTRN has helped to launch the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative to accelerate the development, validation, and commercialization of innovative point-of-care and home-based tests, as well as improvements to clinical laboratory tests, that can directly detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. We have also curated a number resources and additional funding opportunities on our resources page.

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RADx Tech High-Performance Tests
RADx Tech Accessible Tests
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Webinars

Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies

Focus: To develop and translate microsystems-engineered technologies including microchip-enabled devices that include microelectromechanical systems (MEMs)-based sensors, microfluidics, and smartphone-based systems.

Center for Point-of-Care Technologies Research for Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Focus: To develop and test the accuracy, acceptability, and optimal implementation of point-of-care tests for sexually transmitted diseases in diverse care delivery contexts both in the United States and in resource-limited settings.

Center for Innovation in Point of Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS at Northwestern

Focus: To support the development of a pipeline of Point-of-Care Technologies designed to meet the clinical needs of people who live with HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries.

Center for Advancing Point of Care in Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Diseases

Focus: To support development and testing of promising “late-stage” point of care technologies that can be rapidly deployed to enhance the diagnosis, monitoring, management and/or treatment of heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders.

Center news

NIH selects next round of winners in the RADx® Tech for Maternal Health Challenge

Prizes awarded for promising technologies intended to improve postpartum outcomes

Webinar - Long Covid: A Crisis for Neurology

Long COVID presents with a multitude of heterogeneous symptoms predominantly neurological in nature.

RADx Tech DIVE

The deadline has passed to apply for this cohort.

Webinar: RADx Tech Accessible Tests Program - Best Practices

Since the Spring of 2022, RADx Tech has been working to make COVID-19 home tests more accessible.

Funding Opportunity: Blueprint MedTech Spring Award Competition

Webinar - COVID Vaccines: Immunity and Variants

The rapid development of multiple COVID-19 vaccines has been a triumph of biomedical research, and billions of vaccine doses have been administered worldwide.

In the News

Two New Over-the-Counter At-Home COVID-19 Tests Brought to U.S. Market Quickly by Biden-Harris Administration

New HHS actions add to Biden administration efforts to increase access to easy-to-use over-the-counter COVID-19 tests

NIH RADx initiative expands COVID-19 testing innovation for additional types of rapid tests

The need for new test verification and regulatory support for innovative diagnostics

NIH-funded screening study builds case for frequent COVID-19 antigen testing

RADx partnerships speed new COVID testing

One Year of RADx Tech Success

Publication reveals essential ingredients of the groundbreaking NIH RADx national diagnostics effort

Innovative COVID-19 Testing RADx Tech Reports Unveiled in Special Issue of IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Luminostics Announces FDA Authorization and Production Scale-Up of US-Manufactured Smartphone-Based COVID-19 Rapid Test

RADx Expects COVID-19 Portfolio to Accelerate an Era of At-Home Infectious Disease Testing (Login Required)

VIC Foundry, Inc. Receives NIH RADx Funding for Development of an At-home Molecular Diagnostic Test for COVID-19

Ceres Nanosciences Opens Advanced Particle Manufacturing Plant in Northern Virginia to Expand Nanotrap® Particle Manufacturing Capacity for COVID-19 Testing

COVID-19 Testing: Three Breakthrough Solutions in the RADx Initiative

NIH Director: Collaboration Amid Chaos, and Biden’s First 100 Days - How Francis Collins sees the COVID response changing with the new administration

The National Strategy From the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness

Winners of HHS Design-a-thon to Develop Innovative Digital Health Tools for COVID-19 At-Anywhere Diagnostic Tests Announced

The Need for More and Better Testing for COVID-19

Our partners

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National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

Fogarty International Center

Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

Office of AIDS Research

Office of Disease Prevention