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Funding Opportunity to support the development of Point-of-Care Technologies in Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer for Global Health
The Point-of-Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer for Global Health (PORTENT) University Center is a one-of-a-kind international network of clinical, training, and device development facilities with unique worldwide expertise in point-of-care diagnostics, their application and commercialization. Our integrated core clinical and validation facilities across 4 continents in New York City, Uganda, Ecuador, and India, can help validation of technologies on a broad range of populations, clinical samples, and with a unique set of users.
The PORTENT Center is unique in that it:
- Focuses on primary health care globally
- Addresses the needs of the most vulnerable in the US and internationally
- Enables a broad range of diagnostic technologies to be validated on a global scale while simultaneously developing expertise and building capacity domestically and internationally
- Develops expertise and strengthens capacity worldwide to have the most impact even beyond the center
The PORTENT Center seeks to address the clinical needs expressed above through the development and validation of point-of-care technologies with the key metric of having the potential for the largest global impact. Our clinical scope, covering Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer, is large to allow us to focus on the potential for broad impact.