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This week we continued making a workshop on Sickle Cell Disease for medical professionals in Sierra Leone. For now this meant that we worked on a slide deck and held a meeting with the team members who were traveling. In … Continue reading →

This past week we performed a few experiments and made big changes to our plan for fieldwork in Sierra Leone. The first experiment we performed was to optimize the concentration of antibodies that will be loaded onto the beads during … Continue reading →

This week began very slowly, with Monday and Tuesday being spent entirely working on the computer. During this time I reviewed last week’s experiment procedures and results and made sure that we had protocols and visuals that would allow for … Continue reading →

This four day week included lots more work in the lab than previous ones. Some of which was set-up for experiments and some was starting those experiments. At Lehigh we prepared many buffers including those for the bead conjugation, the … Continue reading →

This week was host to many tasks that seem to lead up to future work. On one side of things, I began by finalizing the budget proposal for the summer, our budget typically consist mainly of expensive reagents (antibodies, latex … Continue reading →

Although my first week as a Mountaintop Fellow this summer was filled with paperwork and procedures, I am eager to get to the real work I have in mind. I am on the SicklED team, which is working to create … Continue reading →

While trying to develop a low-cost syringe for the developing world context, you (the designer) hit a crossroads. Constructing the syringe to auto-disable after a single use, an important safety feature, significantly adds to the cost of the design – … Continue reading →

  What are the top three things you learned during your Impact Fellowship? Please elaborate.   One thing that I learned and is a main focus of these fellowships is that in order to really have an impact, ventures need to … Continue reading →

– From the “Story Elements” framework slides, CHOOSE ONE of the frameworks given. Doesn’t matter which – choose the one that speaks to you more. Once you’ve chosen one slide, ignore the other one. 1. Attention-getter – make us listen … Continue reading →

TEN takeaways / lessons learned / things to do differently next time Include more specifics about the distribution process and how it will be adopted into the Sierra Leone healthcare system – both in regards to the malaria test and … Continue reading →