Do you need funding for your Point-of-Care (POC) health solution? Meet with Professor David Erickson and Professor Saurabh Mehta to learn about the PORTENT Center’s 2025-26 Innovation Award Opportunity to support breakthrough POC technologies focused on nutrition, infection, and cancer.           Register here for the webinar Award Details: Total funds available: Approximately $500,000 Project budgets: $50,000–$100,000 Project duration: 12 months Application deadline: June 6, 2025 2025 Award Priorities: Nutrition – Technologies that support screening, diagnosis, and prevention of nutritional problems Infection – Multiplexed diagnostic tools for HIV, co-infections, acute febrile illnesses, neglected tropical diseases, mosquito-borne illnesses, and...

The American Society for Nutrition Foundation (ASNF) and the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) has awarded Julia Finkelstein, associate professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, with the inaugural ASN-NNF Henrik Dam Award for Scientific Discovery in Nutrition. The award, named in honor of Henrik Dam, a Nobel Prize winner and trailblazing Danish researcher, includes over $300,000 for research and a symposium at Cornell University, and aims to spark innovation and support the next generation of leaders in nutrition. It honors a mid-career professional who has made outstanding research contributions to our understanding of micronutrients, nutritional status or...

Are you ready to make a difference? We’re on the hunt for groundbreaking innovations in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of anemia at the last mile. Pitch your innovation to help prevent, diagnose, or treat anaemia among girls and women in South Asia. Selected applicants will receive a cash award and have the opportunity to present their idea/product/technology in Colombo. Selected participants will also be invited to participate in the PORTENT Global Health Point-of-Care Diagnostics Accelerator. We’re seeking digital and AI-based solutions that improve last-mile access in a cost-effective way. Application deadline: May 30th,...

Julia Finkelstein, ScD, MPH, a globally recognized expert in vitamin B12 and one-carbon metabolism, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Henrik Dam Award for Scientific Discovery in Nutrition, which honors mid-career professionals for outstanding research contributions to the understanding of micronutrients, nutritional status, and/or metabolism. She is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and Director of the Maternal and Child Nutrition Program at Cornell...

AnemiaPhone will enable access to rapid screening and diagnosis of iron deficiency at the point of need, Cornell University, which developed the technology, said. photo credit: ANIRUDH on...

AnemiaPhone, a technology developed by Cornell University researchers to accurately, quickly and cheaply assess iron deficiency, has been transferred to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for integration into its programs. AnemiaPhone will enable access to rapid screening and diagnosis of iron deficiency at the point of...

AnemiaPhone, a technology developed by a multidisciplinary team of Cornell researchers to accurately, quickly and cheaply assess iron deficiency, has been transferred to the Indian Council of Medical Research of the government of India for integration into its programs for anemia, women’s health, and maternal and child health throughout the...

A foundational gift has endowed and named the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health in the College of Human Ecology (CHE), expanding Cornell’s portfolio of research and programs in the emerging field of precision...

Do you need funding for your Point-Of-Care (POC) global health solution? Meet with Professor David Erickson and Professor Saurabh Mehta to learn about the PORTENT Center funding opportunity to develop your innovative global health POC...

An interdisciplinary team led by Cornell University has received a five-year grant to launch a new center for engineering, testing and commercializing point-of-care diagnostic devices that will have international...

The devices and technologies will help point-of-care detection of nutritional deficiencies, infections and cancers globally in resource-limited...

An interdisciplinary team led by Cornell has received a five-year grant to launch a new center for engineering, testing and commercializing point-of-care diagnostic devices that will have international...