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CIMIT Prize Winners Announcement
Instant Testing for Sore Throats wins the CIMIT Primary
Healthcare Prize

DNA nanobarcodes could deliver accurate results on whether pharyngitis is caused by strep, flu or any variety of other diseases.

7.1.10 – Imagine finding out before you leave the pediatrician’s office if your child has strep throat, or even something more serious requiring a different treatment.  A novel application for applying DNA “nanobarcodes” in a clinical assay could help primary-care physicians quickly and more accurately determine what’s causing a patient’s acute pharyngitis from an easy throat swab.

Mark R. Hartman, a Cornell University PhD candidate in Biological and Environmental Engineering will lead the team chosen to receive the $150,000 top honor in the 2010 CIMIT Prize in Primary Healthcare competition. His team’s project seeks to apply novel DNA-based “fluorescence nanobarcodes” as a platform technology for multiplexed rapid clinical diagnoses in primary care.  Second place and $100,000 is awarded to another Cornell-based, student-led team.  Third place and $50,000 goes to a team at the MIT Media Lab. 

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