UW News
Paul Yager
June 25, 2013
UW awarded $10 million to design paper-based diagnostic medical device
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The University of Washington has received nearly $10 million from the U.S. Department of Defense to continue a project aimed at building a small, paper-based device that could test for infectious diseases on-demand in areas where diagnostic capabilities are limited.