Center Activities

Supporting exploratory technology projects

Novel and emerging technologies create new opportunities to address clinical needs in low-resource settings. The Center provides financial and technical support to developers of promising technologies to tackle solutions to these identified needs.

Through competitive solicitation processes, the Center identifies, selects, and supports innovative and promising technologies that could have a significant positive impact on public health outcomes. Candidate technologies are assessed for anticipated health impact, relevance to the needs and realities of low-resource settings, and market-related issues that could affect the eventual products’ commercialization prospects.

In 2008, the Center will select up to two exploratory technology projects for support.  Up to $250,000 over a two-year period will be awarded to advance these technologies to an early prototype stage. More information about Center funding opportunities is available here.

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