The Governing Council of the University of Toronto
$170,000.00 CAD
≈ 2 Canadians' average pay for a year
- Department
- National Research Council Canada
- Recipient country
- Canada
- Fiscal year
- 2020-2021
- Agreement period
- March 25, 2021 – September 9, 2021
- Reference
- nrc-cnrc:172-2020-2021-Q4-969766
Published purpose
The Project is to optimize unique latex agglutination tests (LATs) for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus in saliva in an inexpensive "chewable diagnostic" format. The LATs for SARS-CoV-2 are to be performed in a single step, with the aim that the results will be readable by visual inspection, with the potential for automated readout via a smart-phone. By the end of this Project, LATs implemented in the chewable cartridge format will have been developed, optimized, and evaluated in a pilot scale clinical trial.
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