The Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University (C-THAN)
The Center for Innovation in Point-of-Care Technologies for HIV/AIDS and Emerging Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University (C-THAN) is one of the six centers that comprise POCTRN, the NIH/NIBIB's Point-of-Care Technology Research Network.
Explore below to discover more about C-THAN's strategy to promote the development of a pipeline of point-of-care technologies to meet the clinical needs of people who live with HIV/AIDS and emerging infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
- Publications: Discover the current work of our C-THAN collaborators.
- Projects: Learn about the projects C-THAN partners and institutions have worked on in concentration areas of HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, cervical and liver cancer and more.
C-THAN seeks collaborative research projects to develop novel point-of-care technologies aimed at improving diagnosis and treatment monitoring of HIV/AIDS or the detection of emerging or reemerging infectious disease in low- and middle-income countries. If successful, projects should be viable candidates for commercial development. This page will be updated when the application is available.
Learn more at the Point-of-Care Technology Research NetworkLatest News from C-THAN
Annual Meeting Update
Plans are well underway for C-THAN's Annual Meeting to be held Cape Town, South Africa, in March 2025. Our investigators from C-THAN projects for seven years of innovation are invited, along with our lead investigators at each of our African subsites, our Executive Advisory Board, NIH science officers and local experts, with the goal of collaboration and synergy to accomplish C-THAN's goals of improving point-of-care technologies to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. This annual event does much to create and strengthen mutually beneficial networks among key stakeholders and is at the heart of C-THAN's success.
Lateral Flow Development Presentation
C-THAN site PI and working group lead David AuCoin, of University of Nevada Reno, offers insight to Lateral Flow development in this narrated PowerPoint presentation.
Tuberculosis History Video
C-THAN South African PI Grant Theron, with Stellenbosch University, recently provided the following primer on tuberculosis history and recent advances.
Chicago’s Third Coast Center For Aids Research Collaboration
Read the news story: C-THAN drives innovative point-of-care technologies for HIV/AIDS and emerging infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
New Opportunity
Read about this new opportunity with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Grand Challenges: Innovations for Exceptionally Low-Cost Monoclonal Antibody (mAb) Manufacturing.
Leadership
For more information, contact C-THAN via email at c-than@northwestern.edu.