2015 IEEE Honors: IEEE Spectrum Technology in the Service of Society Award- Daktari Diagnostics, Martina Medkova

Daktari’s mission is to address the world’s biggest health problems by distributing a global fleet of portable diagnostic instruments, deployable anywhere in the world. Daktari’s patented technology combines microfluidic sample preparation and electrochemical sensing.Through microfluidic immunochromatography, we cap- ture viruses like HIV and hepatitis C, bacteria, or specific blood cells, starting from a single finger-stick drop of blood.