INSPIRE Track 2: Public Health, Nanotechnology, and Mobility (PHeNoM)

INSPIRE 轨道 2：公共卫生、纳米技术和移动性 (PHeNoM)

• 批准号: 1343058
• 负责人: David Erickson
• 金额: $ 300万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-15 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1343058&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: INSPIRE; Track; Public; Health; Nanotechnology

PI: Erickson, David Proposal: 1343058 Title: INSPIRE Track 2: Public Health, Nanotechnology, and Mobility (PHeNoM) This INSPIRE award brings together research areas traditionally supported by: the Biophotonics and Nanobiosensing Programs in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Division (CBET) of the Engineering Directorate (ENG); the Communications, Circuits and Sensing Systems Program in the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Division (ECCS) of the ENG Directorate; the Science, Technology and Society Program in the Social and Economical Sciences Division of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE); and the Smart Health and Wellbeing Program in the Information and Intelligent Systems Division (IIS) of the Computer & Information Science Engineering Directorate (CISE). Significance The science and technology enabled by the Public Health, Nanotechnology and Mobility (PHeNoM) project may ultimately lead to widespread access to health information obtainable from lab-on-chip technology. This research project could alter the domestic healthcare landscape by enabling earlier-stage detection of disease, reducing the cost of public healthcare delivery, and allowing individuals to take better control of their own well-being. Such advances require the integration of the social and technical contexts of health care device deployment. This integration is accomplished by gathering feedback on early versions of the technology and modifying future designs based on that initial feedback. Iterations between feedback and design are facilitated by research efforts that interpret the feedback and guide the development process. The ultimate transfer of the technology to the marketplace is enabled by a new education effort that involves a unique combination of coursework, business plan development, pre-seed grant workshops, and collaborations with existing start-ups in the mobile health space. Technical Description Advancements in nanotechnology and microfluidics have enabled the development of lab-on-chip devices that can detect and quantify protein, genetic, and other biochemical markers of diseases with precision. Currently-available personalized diagnostic devices are limited to conditions that require either frequent monitoring (e.g. glucose for diabetics) or "binary" results (e.g. pregnancy). The goals of the PHeNoM program are to demonstrate that deployment of lab-on-chip technology can be fundamentally altered by taking advantage of ubiquitous smartphone technology and show that the fusion of physical sensing and molecular assays on mobile platforms enable healthcare diagnostics that are more informative than either technology alone. To meet these aims, the investigators are focusing their efforts on developing and deploying three systems that may have an immediate impact on advancing personalized healthcare in the United States: a Stress-Phone for long term stress management, a Nutri-Phone for bloodwork-enabled nutritional awareness, and a Hema-Phone for monitoring viral loading in HIV+ patients. Beyond the immediate merits of these technologies, the broader merit of this project is the demonstration of new "bioinfo-mobile" diagnostics that intertwine the advantages of mobility, computation, physical sensing, and biomolecular assays.

主要研究者：埃里克森，大卫建议：1343058标题：INSPIRE途径2：公共卫生，纳米技术和流动性（PHeNoM）这个INSPIRE奖汇集了传统上支持的研究领域：工程理事会（ENG）化学，生物工程，环境和运输系统部（CBET）的生物光子学和纳米生物传感计划; ENG理事会电气，通信和网络系统部（ECCS）的通信，电路和传感系统计划;社会，行为和经济科学理事会（SBE）社会和经济科学部的科学，技术和社会计划;以及计算机信息科学工程理事会（CISE）信息和智能系统部（IIS）的智能健康和福利计划&。公共卫生、纳米技术和移动性（PHeNoM）项目所支持的科学和技术可能最终导致广泛获得可从芯片实验室技术获得的健康信息。该研究项目可以通过早期发现疾病，降低公共医疗保健服务的成本，并允许个人更好地控制自己的健康，从而改变国内医疗保健格局。这些进步需要整合医疗保健设备部署的社会和技术背景。这种集成是通过收集对该技术早期版本的反馈并根据初始反馈修改未来设计来实现的。反馈和设计之间的迭代通过解释反馈并指导开发过程的研究工作来促进。该技术最终转移到市场是通过一项新的教育工作实现的，该工作涉及课程作业、商业计划开发、种子前补助金研讨会以及与移动的医疗领域现有初创企业的合作的独特组合。纳米技术和微流体技术的进步使得芯片实验室设备的开发成为可能，这些设备可以精确地检测和量化疾病的蛋白质、遗传和其他生化标志物。目前可用的个性化诊断设备仅限于需要频繁监测（例如糖尿病患者的葡萄糖）或“二元”结果（例如怀孕）的情况。PHeNoM计划的目标是证明，利用无处不在的智能手机技术，可以从根本上改变芯片实验室技术的部署，并表明在移动的平台上融合物理传感和分子测定，使医疗诊断比单独使用任何一种技术都更有信息量。为了实现这些目标，研究人员正在集中精力开发和部署三个系统，这些系统可能对推进美国的个性化医疗保健产生直接影响：用于长期压力管理的压力电话，用于血液工作的营养意识的营养电话，以及用于监测HIV+患者病毒载量的Hema-Phone。除了这些技术的直接优点外，该项目更广泛的优点是展示了新的“生物信息移动”诊断，它融合了移动性、计算、物理传感和生物分子测定的优点。