Jacqueline Linnes, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue University specializing in rapid diagnostic tools for infectious diseases, and her team built a handheld device made out of paper that is designed to detect HIV nucleic acids within 90 minutes, after only two weeks of an infection.

Purdue’s Shah Family Global Innovation Lab will be a place of learning, exploration and problem solving with international impact. Formerly the Global Engineering’s Innovation for International Development (I2D) Lab, the new program is launched by a $2.5M gift from Manahar (Manu) Shah, who received a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue in 1968. Shah and his family’s impactful commitment was announced on Nov. 2 at the signing ceremony.