Invention Brought to Life

All too often, local neighborhood healthcare clinics lack basic capabilities, such as systems to track medical records, information on disease outbreaks, well-trained health workers and even consistent electricity and internet connectivity. Limited information and tools also prevent small farmers in the same communities from growing enough food. To fill these gaps, we’re building next-generation AI-enhanced diagnostics and other intelligent devices. Engineers, machine learning experts and software developers support Global Good with expertise in optics, machine learning, respiratory systems, thermal control, and electromechanical systems, while collaborating across disciplines to develop tools that give farmers actionable advice, automate disease diagnosis, and keep vaccines cool, among many other things.

Diagnostic tests performed on samples, such as blood or tissue, typically require professionally trained analysis outsourced to distant lab facilities—a service that is inaccessible to many low-income communities around the world. Through our work with Global Good, we’re bringing the wet lab to the neighborhood clinic through a new suite of in-vitro diagnostic devices. Our bioengineers, chemists, and molecular biologists leverage expertise in lateral-flow diagnostics, bacterial diagnosis, and biotechnology to develop low cost, easy-to-use tests that give patients more accurate results at the point of care.

The IV Lab is an inventor’s dream. From idea generation and prototyping to the development of commercial devices, IV Lab is also where our new spinout companies emerge. Our scientists, physicists, and engineers who call IV Lab home collaborate with peers across a variety of disciplines to take invention out of the lab and into the marketplace. Home to several Invention Science Fund (ISF) spinouts and companies currently in incubation, IV Lab also provides valuable equipment, workspace, and inspiration.

If you can imagine it, we can build it. Our engineers bring decades of collective electrical engineering and manufacturing experience to this fully equipped shop, enabling rapid in-house prototyping. With a variety of machines and advanced capabilities available around the clock, our expert team can design and fabricate complex customized research instruments and quickly produce new prototypes.