Innovation and Global Health 

Seminar Series 2023

Hosted by Cal Poly Biomedical Engineering

Faculty Contact: David Clague 

dclague@calpoly.edu

Spring Quarter 2023 - Monday Mornings

SCHEDULE: 

Apr. 10th 

11am-12pm  Brandie Shakelford  "A Pipe Dream? Innovations in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Global Health” 


Apr. 17th   


10am-11am    Francie Barron  Cardea Bio (https://www.cardeabio.com/) “From CPUs to BPUs: True Multiomic Detection for Universal Diagnostics.” 


Apr. 24th 


8-9am Sara Della Ripa (From Rwanda https://ughe.org/masters-in-gender-sexual-and-reproductive-health )


10-11am  Bernhard Weigl  Global Health Labs  Developing diagnostic products for global health 


May 1st 


8-9  Louise Agersnap  "Leveraging innovation to accelerate impact in public health"   (World Health Organization)


10-11  Luke Lee  (Harvard) "A Discussion with Dr. Luke Lee on His Latest Research Activities"


May 8th 


10-11  Abraham Lee (UCI) "Microfluidics for Precision Cell Therapies"  


11-12  Jonathan Posner (UW) - "Next generation point-of-care quantitative molecular tests for bloodborne viral pathogens" 


May 15th 


10-11  Juan Santiago  (Stanford)  "CRISPR-based diagnostics:  Fundamental kinetics and microfluidic assays" 


May 22nd 


10-11  Kathrine Clayton (CEO OmniVis)  "Food Security, Global Health, and the Principles of Engineering Diagnostics"  


June 5th 


10-11 Jean Davidson (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo) Rapid sequencing for infectious diseases