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Technologies 1

• INSPECTR™: Direct-to-Consumer Molecular Diagnostic
  INSPECTR™ is a molecular diagnostic platform that combines freeze-dried synthetic gene networks with cell-free expression systems to create novel biosensors that detect and report the presence of a target DNA or RNA molecule without the need for power or lab equipment. This technology was licensed by Wyss startup Sherlock Biosciences in 2019.

Collaborations 2

• Wyss DxA Industrial Participant Program
  As the industry-facing component of the Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator, the Industrial Participant Program is a collaboration hub between healthcare testing companies and the scientific and clinical community within the Wyss ecosystem that seeks to compress the timeframe for bringing new, high-impact, diagnostic technologies to market.
• Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator (DxA)
  An initiative to enable the fast creation of diagnostic technologies to solve high-value clinical problems through deep collaborations driven by unmet diagnostic needs.

News 22

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• Press Release
  
  Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator’s Industrial Participant Program goes official
  April 13, 2023
• Community
  
  Tal Gilboa on Opening a Window into the Brain for Parkinson’s Diagnostics
  February 22, 2023
• Awards
  
  David Walt awarded with National Academy of Engineering’s 2023 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize
  January 5, 2023

Multimedia 7

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  Reimagining Health Equity: Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator
  With the Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator (DxA), we’re reimagining health equity by accelerating the development and deployment of needed diagnostics in all settings, particularly in low-resource settings, by fostering deep collaborations driven by unmet needs. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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  BIOS Podcast – Accelerating Diagnostics Innovation with David Walt – Professor at Harvard, Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute
  David Walt is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Bioinspired Engineering at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Core Faculty Member of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, Associate Member at the Broad Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and is co-Director of the Mass General Brigham...

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  2021 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine
  David R. Walt, a Wyss Core Faculty member, member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Pathology, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, is the winner of the 2021 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine, the world’s largest monetary award for outstanding achievement in the field of nanotechnology and its...

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  Rapid Triage Test for Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis
  There’s a large unmet need for accurate, fast, and inexpensive diagnostics for active tuberculosis (ATB), which claims the lives over a million people per year. A team of researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and several other collaborating institutions have...

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  Disruptive: Accelerating Diagnostics
  In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Core Faculty member David Walt discusses his lessons learned from founding successful biotech companies and how he incorporates translation-minded thinking early on into his current diagnostic research in his labs at the Wyss Institute and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Walt and collaborators are inventing new diagnostic tools to...

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  Le Lab Presents: Measuring and Mimicking Biology with David Walt
  Wyss Core Faculty member David Walt, Ph.D. presented a talk at Le Laboratoire Cambridge on January 23rd 2019, titled Measuring and Mimicking Biology: Eyes, Noses, Genes and Proteins. Walt and his team have taken inspiration from both the visual and olfactory systems to design sensor arrays that are inspired by the properties of the natural systems. Optical fiber...

Events 23

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• May 3, 2023,
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  Mass General Brigham Biobank Resources for Translational Research
  Hosted by Wyss Core Faculty David R. Walt, PhD, Diagnostics Grand Rounds brings clinicians with unmet needs to the Wyss Institute. The goal of these sessions is to inform technology developers about important clinical problems that can help them direct their technology development efforts. Presenters are asked to identify diagnostic needs that will have an... Free and open to public
• Apr 12, 2023,
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  Infectious Diseases Diagnostics: What are we doing?
  Hosted by Wyss Core Faculty David R. Walt, PhD, Diagnostics Grand Rounds brings clinicians with unmet needs to the Wyss Institute. The goal of these sessions is to inform technology developers about important clinical problems that can help them direct their technology development efforts. Presenters are asked to identify diagnostic needs that will have an...
• Mar 1, 2023,
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  Diagnostic Needs in Lyme Disease
  Hosted by Wyss Core Faculty David R. Walt, PhD, Diagnostics Grand Rounds brings clinicians with unmet needs to the Wyss Institute. The goal of these sessions is to inform technology developers about important clinical problems that can help them direct their technology development efforts. Presenters are asked to identify diagnostic needs that will have an... Free and open to public