“We're obviously very pleased to have received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and we're even more excited about the prospects of this project. Using our BPU™ Platform to bring novel and feasible diagnosis capabilities to developing countries was a major driver as to why we started Cardea in the first place. Developing an electronic nose with the potential to diagnose diseases like COVID, malaria, cancer, and so on, is literally a dream come true!” states Michael Heltzen, CEO at Cardea Bio.
Chief Business Officer at Cardea, Rob Lozuk, adds, "We're extremely excited about how this project aligns perfectly with our commitment to positively impact a broad set of healthcare conditions, such as infectious diseases, environmental, and even oncology. By leveraging the foundation's innovations and presence across the globe, this uniquely positions us to validate the potential capabilities of the BPU in bringing healthcare to all corners of our civilization and ultimately allowing people across the world to live healthy and productive lives."
A successful completion of this project will provide validation that the Cardea BPU™ Platform has the potential to meet the needs of a large variety of engineered OR-enabled products for sensing applications in clinical health, environmental monitoring, agriculture, and biosecurity to name a few. Cardea would then focus on developing a point-of-care [POC] testing device that can rapidly screen for common infectious diseases in developing countries.
The benefits of having a single platform capable of a wide range of detection and diagnostic applications enables a drastic reduction in development time and cost. Ultimately this is a benefit to developing countries by deploying a single instrument with application specific tests in a rapid and cost-effective manner, yielding the highest impact in critically underserved communities.

Latest releases

8. August 2022
Dr. Kiana Aran 2nd woman since 1960 to receive Rutgers’ Distinguished Engineer, Medal of Excellence award

14. June 2022
Dr. Aran receives research gift from Agilent Technologies to develop real-time monitoring of cell cultures using Cardea’s BPU platform
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7. June 2022
From CPUs to BPUs - a new generation of biocompatible semiconductors for rapid amplification-free genotyping being introduced at AGBT
"The AGBT conference has been the site of many next generation technological unveilings during the genomics era, so we're immensely proud to have our Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Kiana Aran, present our multiomics...

27. April 2022
Securing international patents for mass-produced graphene biosensors
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