Principal Investigator(s)
Sam Sia, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Description: Rover Dx’s mission is to productize its ultrafast, portable qPCR platform for massively distributed infectious disease diagnosis. Spun out of Dr. Sam Sia’s lab at Columbia University, Rover uses microfluidic technology to automate sample prep, and a novel approach to perform PCR 10x faster than current methods. Its sample-to-answer POC instrument will be portable (< 2 pounds), fast (< 8 minutes), and inexpensive (< $2k). Rover’s first product, an ultrafast lab qPCR instrument, has shown 30 thermal cycles in 5 minutes, and is currently being tested on synthetic, then human, COVID-19 samples; results expected April 2020. Rover hopes to advance ultrafast qPCR for COVID-19 system through contract manufacture and FDA EUA before year end 2020 and complete feasibility prototypes of full sample-to-answer ultrafast POC qPCR for COVID-19 system by June 2021.
If you are working on this project and would like to submit further information or feedback for this page, please click here.
