Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University

The Biomedical Diagnostics Institute (BDI) is a Science Foundation Ireland CSET (Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology). Established in October 2005, the BDI is an Academic-Industrial-Clinical partnership that carries out cutting-edge research programmes focussed on the development of next-generation biomedical diagnostic devices. These devices are targeted at Point of Care applications: these include near-patient testing, self-testing in the home, and diagnosis of disease in the low-resource environments of the developing world.