{"id":14636,"date":"2021-02-01T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=14636"},"modified":"2021-02-01T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T15:37:22","slug":"upstarts-get-a-load-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2021\/02\/upstarts-get-a-load-of-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstarts: Get a Load of This"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14644\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shutterstock_95629825_BW.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shutterstock_95629825_BW.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shutterstock_95629825_BW-300x250.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shutterstock_95629825_BW-768x640.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/tza-huei-jeff-wang\/\">Jeff Wang<\/a>, a professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/me.jhu.edu\">mechanical engineering<\/a> and member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\">Institute for NanoBioTechnology<\/a>, is developing an inexpensive, portable, and user-friendly rapid diagnostic device that can be used for self-testing the viral load of people living with HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing one\u2019s viral load (the amount of virus in the bloodstream) is necessary to maximize the efficacy of antiretroviral therapies, which can slow disease progression and improve outcomes, as well as to assess an individual\u2019s risk of transmitting the disease. However, being able to conduct regular viral load testing has long been one of the biggest challenges to global HIV\/AIDS management \u2014a fact that is particularly true for people in low-resource settings.<\/p>\n<p>Wang\u2019s device uses lab-on-a-chip technology to miniaturize every aspect of the testing process\u2014from using finger-stick blood samples to employing magnetofluidic technology, a process that enables simplification of the device\u2019s instrumentation as it relies on magnetic particles to process the biofluid samples. Currently, Wang is planning on conducting validation studies of the diagnostic device in multiple sites, including in Kampala, Uganda, with a goal for translating the technology for home-based HIV viral loading testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jeff Wang is developing an inexpensive, portable, and user-friendly rapid diagnostic device that can be used for self-testing the viral load of people living with HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[402,403],"class_list":["post-14636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","tag-hiv","tag-aids","issue-winter-2021"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Upstarts: Get a Load of This - 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