Lateral flow assays (LFA’s) are used to diagnose patients using biomarkers of interest. Current LFA’s are expensive and aren’t sufficiently sensitive enough to give results for diagnosis in a timely manner. In under-resourced settings (rural locations, developing world) this can cause an ill patient to leave clinic before receiving a diagnosis, thus preventing treatment and may proliferate the disease.

The goal is to create a low-cost rapid diagnostic prototype. The device should be low cost and more efficient than currently used products. The rapid diagnostic device should also be marketable to under-resourced clinics.

Intial research will be conducted through a proof of concept experiment based approach. Once it is therotically possible, steps will be taken to explore designing a prototype device.

Project Name

Alternative to Lateral Flow Assay

Project Number

P19084

Start Term

2018

End Term

2019

Faculty Guide

Mike Zona, mfzddm@rit.edu

Primary Customer and Sponsor

James Roussie, jroussie@simpore.com, (585) 944-3623

Planning & Execution

Imagine RIT

Gate Reviews

Problem Definition

Systems Design

Preliminary Detailed Design

Detailed Design

Build & Test Prep

Subsystem Build & Test

Integrated System Build & Test

Customer Handoff & Final Project Documentation (Verification & Validation)

PRP

Performance vs Requirements

Project Schedule

Risk Assessment

Problem Management

Use Cases

Bench Marking

Functional Decomposition

Morphological Analysis

Pugh Analysis

Bill of Material

Final Concept Breakdown

Test Plans

Test Results

Technical Paper

Imagine RIT Poster

Lightning Talk Slide