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HydroPEF: Portable Off-the-Grid Water Purification
The Problem Globally, more than 2 billion people are forced to use a drinking water source that is contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and other pathogens, and an estimated 502,000 people die each year from diarrhea as a result of unsafe water. While a majority of the world has access to improved water sources, many are...
Plastivores: Plastic-Degrading Super-Microbes and Enzymes
The Plastic Degradation project identifies microbes from natural sources that have a low-level ability to degrade multiple types of plastic. In the laboratory, with the help of synthetic biology, those microbes then are evolved into much more effective plastic-eating microbes that, in the future, could be globally deployed to decompose plastic waste.
CogniXense for Rare Disease Drug Discovery
Unravel Biosciences has licensed a Wyss drug discovery platform technology to identify and create drugs to treat complex central nervous system disorders, starting with Rett syndrome.
CircaVent: A Drug Discovery Platform for Mental Health Conditions
CircaVent is a novel drug discovery platform that combines predictive algorithms, high-throughput preclinical models, and human organoids to identify and test drugs that could treat mental health conditions like bipolar disorder.
CogniXense: A Platform for Rapid Drug Repurposing
CogniXense is a target-agnostic drug discovery platform that enables the repurposing of drugs for rare genetic diseases in record time. By combining human data-based computational drug prediction with on-demand animal model development, we can mimic the diversity of symptoms of patient populations and begin drug screening on new diseases within a month.

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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.

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Nature Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic
Resiliency, redundancy, adaptability: COVID-19 has shown humanity that we need more of the qualities that are built into nature. See how a cat’s tongue inspired Wyss Lead Staff Engineer Richard Novak to create a novel nasal swab design to aid in COVID-19 diagnostics.

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Children’s Health Symposium
This full-day symposium hosted by the Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator brings together leading scientists, clinicians, innovators, and advocates to explore cutting-edge approaches to improving pediatric health. Through sessions spanning prevention, diagnostics, discovery platforms, therapeutics, ethics and equity, and scaling innovation, the event highlights transformative ideas and technologies advancing care for children worldwide. With keynote talks from...