Lab quality testing in a point of care package.

A simple finger prick test that can be done at home or in the office.

Built on more than 5 years of biomedical innovation at Cornell University, VitaScan is the first portable device for rapid and quantitative nutrition testing. The technology is supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and US Department of Defense and has been validated in human pilot studies.

 

Simple testing directly from blood

VitaScan uses enhanced lateral flow assay technology to perform quantitative analysis while maintaining simple user steps and low material costs.

 

Laboratory level accuracy

Our patented test design, biochemical process, and image analysis methodology enable quantitatively accurate measurements comparable to laboratory instrumentation.

Publications

 

Point of care lateral flow

Point-of-Care Quantification of Serum Alpha-Fetoprotein for Screening Birth Defects in Resource-Limited Settings: Proof-of-Concept Study, Srinivasan, B., Finkelstein, JL, Erickson, D, Mehta, S. JMIR Biomedical Engineering 6 (1), e23527 (2021).

A Lateral Flow-Based Portable Platform for Determination of Reproductive Physiological Status of Lactating Dairy Cows, Masello, M., Lu, Z., Erickson, D., Giordano, J., Journal of Dairy Science 103(5) (2020).

Enhancing the Usability of an Optical Reader System to Support Point-of-Care Rapid Diagnostic Testing: An Iterative Design Approach Hohenstein, J., O'Dell, D., Murname, E., Zhengda, L., Erickson, D., Gay, G. JMIR 4, 4 (2017)

Mitigating the hook effect in lateral flow sandwich immunoassays using real-time reaction kinetics. Rey, E.G., O'Dell, D., Mehta, S., Erickson, D., Analytical Chemistry 89, 5095-5100 (2017)

Precision nutrition — review of methods for point-of-care assessment of nutritional status. Srinivasan, B., Lee, S., Erickson, D., Mehta, S., Current Opinion in Biotechnology 44, 103-108 (2017)

Two-color lateral flow assay for multiplex detection of causative agents behind acute febrile illnesses. Lee, S, Mehta, S., Erickson, D., Analytical Chemistry, 88 (17), 8359-8363 (2016)

Personalized Nutrition Diagnostics at the Point-of-Need. Lee, S., Srinivasan, D., Vemulapati, S., Mehta, S., Erickson, D., Lab on a Chip 16, 2408-2417 (2016)

Future tests (letter vitamins, inflammation, folate)

Vitamin A status, inflammation adjustment, and immunologic response in the context of acute febrile illness: A pilot cohort study among pediatric patients, Colt, S., Gannon, B.M., Finkelstein, J.L., Zambrano, M.P., Andrade, J.K, Centeno-Tablante, E., August, A., Erickson, D., Cardenas, W.B., Mehta, S., Clinical Nutrition, 40 (5), 2837-2844 (2021).

A point-of-care assay for alpha-1-acid glycoprotein as a diagnostic tool for rapid, mobile-based determination of inflammation, Bryan M. Gannon, Marshall J. Glesby, Julia L. Finkelstein, Tony Raj, David Erickson, Saurabh Mehta, Current Research in Biotechnology, 41-48 (2019).

Fluorescence lateral flow competitive protein binding assay for the assessment of serum folate concentrations, Rey, E., Finkelstein, J.L., Erickson, D., PLOS-One 14(6), e0217403 (2019).

Personalized stress monitoring: a smartphone-enabled system for quantification of salivary cortisol Rey, E., Jain, A., Abdullah, S., Choudhury, T., Erickson, D. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 22(4), 867-877 (2018)

Rapid diagnostic testing platform for iron and vitamin A deficiency Lu, Z., O'Dell, D., Srinivasan, B., Rey, E., Wang, R., Vemulapati, S., Mehta, S., Erickson, D. PNAS (2017)

A Quantitative Point-of-Need Assay for the Assessment of Vitamin D3 Deficiency Vemulapati, S., Rey, E., O'Dell, D., Mehta, S., Erickson, D. Scientific Reports 7, 14142 (2017)

Cholesterol testing on a smartphone. Oncescu, V., Mancuso, M., Erickson, D., Lab on a Chip, 14, 759-763 (2014)

Smartphone based health accessory for colorimetric detection of biomarkers in sweat and saliva. Oncescu, V., O’Dell, D., Erickson, D., Lab on a Chip, 13, 3232-3238 (2013)

Smartphone testing technology

Development of lateral flow assay for soluble transferrin receptor on ironPhone platform, Srinivasan, B., O’Dell, D., Finkelstein, J.L., Erickson, D., Mehta, S. EBioMedicine 42, 28-29 (2019).

ironPhone: mobile diagnostic platform for assessment of iron status by quantification of serum ferritin Srinivasan B., O'Dell, D., Lee, S., Erickson, D., Mehta, S., Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 99, 115-121, (2018)

IronPhone: Mobile device-coupled point-of-care diagnostics for assessment of iron status by quantification of serum ferritin. Srinivasan, B., O'Dell, D., Finkelstein, J. L., Lee, S., Erickson, D., Mehta, S. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 99, 115-121 (2017)

A Laboratory in Your Pocket: Enabling Precision Nutrition. Mehta, S., Colt, S., Lee, S., Lee, S., Erickson, Rainer Gross Award Lecture 2016, Food and Nutrition Bulletin 38, 140-145 (2017)

NutriPhone: a mobile platform for low-cost point-of-care quantification of vitamin B12 concentrations. Lee, S., O’Dell, D., Hohenstein, J., Colt, S., Mehta, S., Erickson, D., Scientific Reports 6, 28237 (2016)

Smartphone technology can be transformative to the deployment of lab-on-chip diagnostics. Erickson, D., O'Dell, D., Jiang, L., Oncescu, V., Gumus, A., Lee, S., Mancuso, M., Mehta, S. Lab on a Chip 14, 3159-3164 (2014)

A smartphone platform for the quantification of vitamin D levels. Lee, S., Oncescu, V., Mancuso, M., Mehta, S., Erickson, D., Lab on a Chip 14, 1437 (2014)

Infectious disease testing

Current state of the art in rapid diagnostics for antimicrobial resistance, Shanmugakani, R.K., Srinivasan, B., Glesby, M.J., Westblade, L.F., Cardenas, W.B., Raj, T., Erickson, D., Mehta, S., Lab-on-a-Chip 20, 2607-2625 (2020).

Paper-Based Semi-Quantitative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing, Wang, R., Erickson, D., ACS Omega, 6, 2, 1410-1414 (2021).

Point of Care Technologies for Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Oeschger, T., McCloskey, D., Kopparthy, V., Singh, A., Erickson, D., Lab-on-a-Chip 19,728-737 (2019).

A rapid diagnostic platform for colorimetric differential detection of dengue and chikungunya viral infections, Wang, R., Ongagna-Yhombi, S.Y., Lu, Z., Centeno-Tablante, E., Colt, S., Cao, X., Ren, Y., Cárdenas, W.B., Mehta, S., Erickson, D., Analytical Chemistry 91(8), 5415-5423 (2019).

A two-color multiplexed lateral flow immunoassay system to differentially detect human malaria species on a single test line, Kim, J., Cao, X., Finkelstein, J.L., Cardenas, W.B., Erickson, D., Mehta, S., Malaria Jounal 18, 313 (2019)