At the Oxford MQPH conference, Marya Lieberman presented in a session titled Screening Technologies: Will they Save the Day? The talk was captured by the sketch artist. Here we see a summary of how the PAD works and the results of the supply chain exercise that the 20 students in the short course…
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The National Science Foundation has awarded our team an exploratory grant to use PADs to detect and dismantle supply chains for bad quality pharmaceuticals. We will work with Professor Karen Smilowitz at…
Check out the NPR interview with Muhammad Zaman about his book "Bitter Pills: The Global War on Counterfeit Drugs". He is the BU prof who developed a portable dissolution testing device
Our proposal titled "The whole world is watching: tracking bad quality medicine with citizen science and an electronic ledger" was funded by the Notre Dame Blockchain Working Group for 2018! Computer scientists James and Chris Sweet will work with the PAD project to institute a distributed electronic…
Notre Dame has licensed the PAD technology to Veripad, LLC. This startup company has developed a cell-phone based PAD reader that automatically analyzes the PAD image for the user. Watch for more developments!
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by Zoie Alexiou
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently published an advocacy document in attempt to quantify the cost…
PBS Newshour for Dec. 14 included an 8 min segment on falsified and substandard medicines in…
Congratulations to the Veripad team, which received $50K in equity-free support from this round of the Mass Challenge accelerator program. This award will…
Veripad is a startup company that uses PAD technology and a cell phone reader app to detect suspicious pharmaceuticals. They were just selected to compete for a share of $USD 1.5 million in the…
Laboratory Equipment put together a nice piece on the PAD project, featuring Toni Barstis's team at Saint Marys College and Veripad.
Under the guidance of Prof. Toni Barstis, students from Saint Marys College are using PADs to test drug quality in Nepal.
Sandipan Banerjee has been training a neural network to recognize the color signatures from different types of pharmaceuticals. The program is nearly as accurate as human readers.
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We're excited to be named as a finalist for the Round 7 Saving Lives at Birth seed award. Our innovation wll help birth attendants to treat bleeding after childbirth with high quality medicines that can save lives.
When kids don't get enough iodine in their diet, growth and brain development are stunted. We developed a paper test card to help medical authorities and nutrition specialists monitor the need for iodine supplements in different populations.
Full details are available open access at PLOS-ONE
PAD commercialization takes another step towards reality. Veripad joins 127 other startup companies in this prestigious startup accelerator's 2017 class. Over…
Hesburgh Libraries and the Center for Research Computing convened a workshop May 1 and 2, 2017, to discuss how libraries can faciliate preservation and sharing of data. These tasks are more and more important for researchers in the digital age. Margaret Berta gave a nice example of how her research…