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.

Award Details:

• Total funds available: Approximately $500,000
• Project budgets: $50,000–$100,000
• Project duration: 12 months
• Application deadline: June 6, 2025

Register here for the webinar

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 more
• Cancer – Solutions that expand cancer screening and diagnosis at the community and clinic level
• Proposals aligned with Digital Health, AI & Connectivity, and Wellness solutions are strongly encouraged

Read about previously funded research here: Year 1 | Year 2

About us

PORTENT, a Center for Point-of-Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer at Cornell University translates breakthrough point-of-care diagnostics into rapid, affordable tests that reduce the burden of chronic disease, curb infectious threats, and strengthen prevention efforts across the United States. It is a one-of-a-kind international network of clinical, training, and device development facilities with worldwide expertise in point-of-care diagnostics, their application and commercialization. A member of the POCTRN network, the PORTENT Center is focused on supporting development, clinical validation, commercialization, and deployment of point-of-care technologies, so providers can intervene sooner, patients stay healthier, and health care costs decline.