Diagnostics For All’s (DFA) mission is to save lives and improve health in the developing world through pioneering technological innovation. Using our elegantly simple and low-cost patterned paper technology to create diagnostic devices, DFA strives to meet the needs of those living in resource-poor regions.
DFA was founded in 2007 by a group of scientists and entrepreneurs with a shared commitment to saving lives and alleviating disease in developing countries and other resource-poor settings through low-cost, innovative, practical diagnostic devices.
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November 2012 |
Awarded $2.6M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a novel diagnostic for the assessment of immunity status against tetanus and measles to support vaccination efforts. |
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March 2012 |
First field study of DFA's liver function test begins in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
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November 2011
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Awarded a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a point-of-care, paper-based diagnostic for nucleic acid detection.
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July 2011
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Awarded one of 19 Saving Lives at Birth Phase I grants from USAID for the development of screening diagnostics for at-risk pregnancies, co-funded by Grand Challenges Canada, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank, and the Norwegian Ministry Of Foreign Affairs.
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February 2011
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UK Government and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation award Diagnostics For All $2.99 million to develop three new agricultural tests
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January 2010 |
Una Ryan joins DFA as CEO and President |
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July 2009
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Agreement signed with Harvard University giving DFA exclusive licensing rights for diagnostics technologies developed in the laboratories of George Whitesides
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January 2009
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Establishes research and development laboratory in Cambridge, MA
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November 2008
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Harvard University wins 5-year grant from the Gates Foundation, with DFA designated as subcontractor for the development of a Critical Organ Function Test for the liver
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October 2008 |
Martinez, Phillips, Whitesides publish article describing novel three-dimensional patterned-paper diagnostics in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
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June 2008 |
Patrick Beattie joins DFA as first full-time employee |
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May 2008
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DFA Business Plan Team Wins MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, the competition’s first non-profit winner
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April 2008
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DFA Business Plan Team Wins Harvard Business School 12th Annual Business Plan Contest
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December 2007
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Incorporated in Delaware by Carmichael Roberts
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January 2007 |
Martinez, Phillips, Butte, and Whitesides publish the first paper describing the patterned-paper technology that would form the base of DFA's approach to low-cost diagnostics.
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