Will the project "Project Helio" receive receive any funding from the Clearer Thinking Regranting program run by ClearerThinking.org?

Below, you can find some selected quotes from the public copy of the application. The text beneath each heading was written by the applicant. Alternatively, you can click here to see the entire public portion of their application.

Activities involved in project

Building a paper-based [point of care] biosensor for population assessment of vitamin B-12 deficiency in [low income countries]

Populations that would benefit

Nigeria, whereby populations at risk (children + women) have not had vitamin B-12 data collected on them within the last 20 years even though 31% of the population is estimated to be severely deficient. They should be evaluated every 5 years, however, this has not been made possible due to the high costs of data collection ($10M). As a result, there are no current reports of large-scale intervention programs. We have chosen Nigeria as a suitable country, but eventually it will benefit populations in all LMICs.

Project Pitch

How much funding they are requesting

$30,000 USD

What they would do with the amount specified

Purchase wet-lab prototyping materials: lateral flow test kits, glucometers, glucose strips, antibodies, gold nanoparticles, buffer solution, magnetic beads, holoTC (we are still trying to find pure form), human serum, and the Axis-Shield assay.

Spreadsheet of all the materials we are planning to purchase, including their costs and quantities.

Here you can review the entire public portion of the application (which contains a lot more information about the applicant and their project):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eIgnvLBi_7OFoh4mLWtZh0WoBXWMobpGpRIRPD9gM6Q/edit