Dr. Octavian Florescu
President, Xip
BSAC PhD 2010
November 24, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall
Host: Bernhard Boser
Xip is a diagnostics company that has developed a monolithically-integrated CMOS IC that counts individual molecules in a drop of unprocessed plasma. Mated to this IC is a passive sample preparation system that uses a drop of whole blood from a finger stick and removes the red blood cells which can introduce volumetric errors. Using this technology, Xip has developed the first single-use digital blood analyzer to quickly and accurately diagnose heart attacks. Currently, only 10% of heart attacks are diagnosed using an EKG, while most diagnoses rely on detecting elevated concentrations of troponin, a heart muscle necrosis indicator. Use of this device in emergency departments, ambulances, and even in the home will save the medical system billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives.
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