Dr. Wenqi Gan Joins $3.27M NIH-Funded Research Project

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Dr. Wenqi Gan, Associate Professor in Public Health Sciences, will serve as Co-investigator on a new $ 3,270,965 grant awarded to Dr. Changchun Liu titled “HIV Viral Load Testing Using CRISPR Cascade Signal Amplification” This 5-year project aims to develop a rapid, affordable, and sensitive CRISPR cascade signal amplification approach to examine HIV viral load in clinical samples. This clinical examination approach will enable acute HIV diagnosis and viral load testing at home and be appropriate for resource-limited settings where HIV is most prevalent.