Healthcare Product Innovation through Lab-on-a-Chip and Advanced Testing Technologies

Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) is increasingly popular in the world and it is particularly useful when patients live a distance away from a hospital laboratory. Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip technologies offer three main advantages to POCT diagnostics: smaller sample volumes, lower test costs, and faster turn-around times. These advantages are increasingly being leveraged to develop POCT devices to detect and diagnose a host of conditions, spanning from infectious diseases to cancer. This course module is designed for and targeted at engineers or PMETs who have a degree or background knowledge of medical diagnostic products and interested in the knowledge and skills pertaining to product development of Point-of-Care Testing (POCT). Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) technologies have become the promising solutions that can meet the requirement of the POCT since they can miniaturize and integrate most of the functional modules used in central laboratories into a small cassette, or cartridge. We propose to cover the knowledge and skills about immune-sensing and optical detection, molecular diagnostics and cellular analysis in the application of miniaturized medical diagnostics, as well as the practical methods about developing new POCT products, which are mostly medical instrument and cartridges or cassettes. Knowledge and skills about building up the quality management system in medical product development will be covered as well. Through our innovative Learn-Practise-Implement plus mentorship training module, which is essentially different from the conventional classroom teaching, we are confident that we are able to deliver the course contents and meet the course objective in total 40 training hours as defined in this module.

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