™Redefining how rapid diagnostics are manufactured, transported, used, and discarded.
You have probably used a rapid test.
A pregnancy test and a COVID self-test are the ones most people have held. A few drops of sample go on one end, travel along a strip inside a plastic case, and a line appears within minutes. The test needs no laboratory, so the result can be read where the sample is taken.
Clinics and pharmacies use them, screening programs take them into the field, and people use them at home. Where the nearest laboratory is hours away, a rapid test is often the only test there is.
Malaria, HIV, syphilis, hepatitis, influenza, and strep throat all have rapid tests. Hormones and drugs in urine are read from the same kind of strip. Outside healthcare the strips check food for pathogens and allergens, water for disease-causing microbes, and animals on farms.
CENTiV™ is a patent-pending rapid diagnostic platform that delivers up to 100 tests from a single sealed roll.
Each sealed roll replaces that many single-use plastic cassettes. Less packaging means less weight and less space per test, and shipping is where most of the saving comes from. Fewer components and fewer manual steps also mean fewer ways to get a test wrong.
One small reusable reader reads every test type and records each result. CENTiV handles the steps that commonly go wrong, like measuring liquids and timing the result.
The first panel is for antenatal care: HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B in one test, at a routine pregnancy check-up.
Four problems built into today's rapid tests.CENTiV is designed to fix all four.
01
Plastic overhead
CENTiV replaces the cassette with a roll and brings the material per test under 3g.
02
Temperature limits
No refrigeration needed. The storage target is up to 50°C, freezing included.
03
Result privacy
The person testing sees the result for a set time. After that it is hidden from anyone nearby, with no electronics involved.
04
Results rarely recorded
Every result comes out in standard healthcare data formats, and the reader works offline.
Who we work with
University of Twente
Netherlands
Papanikolaou General Hospital
Greece
Stellenbosch University
South Africa
SYNYO GmbH
Austria
University of Pretoria
South Africa
Betthera s.r.o.
Czech Republic
Almi
Sweden
aera
Denmark
DMRY & Co
Sweden
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