Summary

Detact Diagnostics has received $5.9M in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop point-of-care diagnostic tests and hardware using their VIPER technology platform.

Takeaways

  1. The new grants build on previous funding for initial pilot studies, showcasing the potential of VIPER technology for diagnosing infectious diseases like tuberculosis and syphilis.
  2. The funding supports the development of the ‘DeNIRO’ Near-Infrared Fluorometer, a low-cost handheld device for rapid point-of-care diagnostics.
  3. The VIPER technology aims to revolutionize infectious disease diagnostics, particularly in low and middle-income countries, by being simple, fast, low-cost, sensitive, and portable.

Detact Diagnostics has received four grants totalling $5.9M from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop essential point-of-care diagnostic tests and hardware utilising their VIPER technology platform.

The newly awarded grants build on funding by the foundation for the initial pilot studies, demonstrating the potential for Detact Diagnostics’ VIPER technology to quickly and easily diagnose infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and syphilis, in clinical samples.

The follow-on grants fund the development of Detact Diagnostics’ novel ‘DeNIRO’ Near-Infrared Fluorometer, a low-cost handheld point-of-care device to accelerate the journey of the VIPER-based diagnostics into the hands of healthcare professionals for the rapid detection and diagnosis of its initial target diseases, tuberculosis and syphilis.

“We’re thrilled to have funding support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in moving to the next stage of development of our VIPER® technology,” says Joost Gazendam, CEO of Detact Diagnostics. “Our mission is to revolutionise the detection and diagnostics of infectious diseases. Our unique VIPER technology platform is simple to use, fast, low cost, sensitive and portable, making it an ideal platform for deployment in low and middle-income countries where these diseases have a huge social and economic impact.”