On December 10th 2010, UC Berkeley will host the first-ever
Bay Area conference on point-of-use diagnostics for global health:
GHDx Innovation Summit:
Translating Ideas into Impact
Friday, December 10, 2010
9:30 am to 4:30 pm (lunch included)
Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
http://cend.berkeley.edu/diagnostics
Learn about the novel partnerships required to translate innovative lab-on-a-chip technologies into real-world solutions. The day includes speakers from universities, industry and the non-profit sector, discussing promising engineering advances & the realities of health care in developing countries.
Featured Speakers
John McDevitt, Professor of Bioengineering and Chemistry, Rice University
Samuel Sia, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
Bernhard Weigl, Principal Investigator, PATH Center for Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Paul Yager, Professor of Bioengineering, University of Washington
To REGISTER for this no-cost event, please visit:
http://cend.berkeley.edu/diagnostics
The conference is co-chaired by Luke Lee and Amy Herr in the UC Berkeley Department of Bioengineering, and is sponsored by the Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases.
Questions? Email cend@berkeley.edu
