This Thursday at Change, we will be hosting a talk by professor of bioengineering Paul Yager <http://faculty.washington.edu/yagerp/>, who will discuss his work on developing cell-phone-based point-of-case diagnostics for use in developing countries. He will be joined by bioengineering postdoc Dean Stevens, computer science graduate student Nicola Dell, and undergraduate bioengineering student Sugandhan Venkatachalam, who will speak about their work on the project. *For the last 15 years the Yager lab has been working on development of microfluidic devices for point-of-care diagnostics. Over the last 5 years the lab was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative to develop a system for performing both immunoassays and nucleic acid assays that would work in the low resource settings in the developing world–the DxBox. Inside the DxBox, the immunoassay were performed on a sophisticated disposable, and the assay results were captured using a cell phone chip camera. One of the conclusions of the DxBox project was that to minimize the final cost-per-assay, one of the few possible approaches was to put all the chemistry on an inexpensive (but sophisticated) disposable, and to replace the permanent reader with a camera-equipped cell phone. In collaboration with the Borriello lab, we have been converting protocols that Dean Stevens developed in the DxBox project for quantifying immunoassay results (form a movie from his cell phone) with MatLab into code that runs on the Android phone operating system. We will present the most recent progress on the project.* Please join us for sandwiches, and to learn more about mobile point-of-care diagnostics! *What:* Paul Yager on Cell-Phone-Based Point-of-Care Diagnostics for the Developing World *When:* Thursday, March 10th at noon *Where:* Paul Allen Center, Room 203