Daktari Honored with IEEE Spectrum Award

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Daktari Diagnostics was honored at the 2015 IEEE Spectrum Honors Ceremony with the Technology in the Service of Society Award. IEEE President and CEO, Howard E. Michel, and IEEE President-Elect, Barry L. Shoop presented the award to Principal Scientist Martina Medkova, Ph.D., on behalf of Daktari. The ceremony was held Saturday, June 20, 2015, at the historic Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, NY.

"I have spent more than 3 years as a Daktari scientist developing tests for HIV and hepatitis C that run on the Daktari instrument," said Medkova at the award ceremony. "My long days in the lab feel worthwhile when I know the impact these tests can have, especially in areas of the world without the medical resources we have here."

IEEE Spectrum published a story in December 2014 on the Daktari CD4 product, "Bringing HIV Labs by Backpack to Rural Africa." The story featured clinical testing Daktari performed at a remote fishing village in Uganda in late 2013, highlighting how Daktari's point-of-care CD4 test can reach areas where conventional testing is unavailable.

About DaktariDaktari Diagnostics, Inc. (www.daktaridx.com) is a venture-backed company based in Cambridge, USA. Daktari's mission is to address the world's biggest health problems through the commercialization of portable diagnostic products that can be deployed anywhere in the world. The Daktari technology combines electrochemical sensing with microfluidics, enabling highly accurate, low-cost diagnostics in a handheld format. The Daktari connectivity platform, Daktari InSight, provides seamless data management for diagnostic test results produced at any health facility in the world.

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