Research Collaboration Pioneers Medical Diagnostics and Disease Tracking

(startupticker.ch, June 03, 2013)

A new £11 million Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC), led by University College London (UCL), will develop mobile health technologies for rapidly testing and tracking infectious diseases. Swiss company Zurich Instruments is one of the international partners in the IRC, contributing its know-how in digital dynamic signal processing. The IRC brings together healthcare organizations, research institutions, and industry partners. The collaboration will pioneer low cost, easy to use mobile phone-connected diagnostic tests based on advances in nanotechnology. It will also track reported symptoms of infection by searching internet sources and develop data mining technologies for application to public health surveillance challenges.