Inventors Revisited: From HIV to Covid-19 – the device that could change the world

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Recorded13 Oct 2020

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Moderator: Fernando Tiberini Guest: Helen Lee, CEO, Diagnostics for the real world Helen Lee left a career in industry to work on an invention that would be a game-changer in treating viruses such as HIV. Her device won a 2016 European Inventor Award and is now deployed several developing regions and is part of programmes to detect mother-to-child transmission of HIV. In 2020, Helen and her team developed atest for SARS-CoV-2. Their device, SAMBA II, delivers results in 90 minutes, giving medical professionalsan important weapon in fighting the spread of COVID-19.

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