Event Information

Event Topic:
The Evanostics story – A step towards saving lives from drug overdose

Event Description:
Evanostics is committed to saving lives by enabling accurate and fast diagnosis in near-patient settings. The vision is to create a “thermometer” for oral fluid-based testing that anyone in a clinic or pharmacy could use with minimal training and produce lab-quality results. The first product focuses on testing needed to battle the raging opioid crisis made worse by the Covid19 pandemic. More than 268 people are dying every day. Pain management and behavioral health management clinicians urgently need a reliable and fast system usable in their clinics and get results for the presence of over ten drug classes within fifteen minutes. In the absence of a test, the quality of care suffers, and the number of lab-send outs increase – costing time and money. Evanostics test system comprises of a small benchtop analyzer and a single-use cartridge with an oral fluid collection. The first pilot testing in a pain management clinic resulted in 95%+ sensitivity and specificity and a happy doctor and patients. The talk will begin by introducing the problem, move to the product– its design, architecture, and performance – with some insight into the multidisciplinary challenges and how we overcame them. The talk will also explore the product architecture and function. It will elucidate how various disciplines – immunochemistry, photonics, semiconductor fabrication, microfluidics, electronics, software, and mechanical design – combine to create an end-to-end solution for the unmet need.

Date/Time:
Date(s) - 02/16/21
8:30 am - 10:30 am

Event Location:
Zoom talk: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88274227563:

Speaker Information

Event Speaker:
Ashutosh Shastry

Event Speaker Title:
Founder, President, CEO

Event Speaker Company:
Evanostics

Event Speaker Bio:

Dr. Ashutosh Shastry is a founding member, President, and CEO of Evanostics and has a passion and expertise in building multidisciplinary teams, technologies, and products for diagnostics and drug delivery. Utilizing his deep experience with microsystems engineering, Dr. Shastry led the product and technology development for the Evanostics point-of-care system. Before joining Evanostics, Dr. Shastry served as Vice President R&D at iNDx LifeCare and as the Director of Engineering at Corium International. At Corium, he led the technology development and scalable pilot manufacturing of a dissolvable-microneedles patch from early concepts to Phase IIa. Before that, he had led the development of a next-generation infusion pump, which received an Edison Award in the category of “Science & Medical Device Game Changers.” Earlier, at the University of Washington, Dr. Shastry initiated research on super-hydrophobic surfaces for droplet microfluidics. Dr. Shastry has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering and M.Tech and B.Tech. Degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He initiated India’s first BioMEMS projects collaborating with Cancer Research Institute. He has authored multiple publications and has over fifteen patents. He has served on the Industrial Advisory Board for UCLA’s Bioengineering Department, a National Institute of Health Review Panelist for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Science Foundation SBIR Review Panel for Biomedical Technologies and as President of EPPIC Global, where he continues to serve on the BoD.

Event Details

Cost:
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