Jacqueline Linnes, Marta E. Gross Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, was awarded a Shah Family Global Innovation Lab Seed Grant to develop a rapid assay for sensitive and specific cervical cancer detection.

The Shah Family Global Innovation Lab has announced its winners for the 2019 Seed Grant Awards. The lab supports a community of faculty, staff, students, and global partners to respond to bottleneck challenges in international development through engineering innovations and market-driven approaches.

Each year, the Shah Family Global Innovation Lab hosts the Innovation for International Development (I2D) Exposition at Purdue University. This event highlights Purdue's incredible engineering innovations focused on addressing the Sustainable Development Goals. Additionally, the expo offers a chance for students, faculty, and staff to connect with international development professionals and partner organizations.

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.