Improving Public Health with Affordable Disease Tests

In 2018, diagnostics maker Quidel® entered the exploding Over The Counter market for at-home testing for illnesses like the flu and Lyme disease. Without warning, in early 2020, COVID-19 spread like wildfire, escalating the critical need for tests.

Boston Engineering built the product development kit in just 15 months, empowering Quidel to:

• Win emergency authorization use from the FDA for COVID-19 for its QuickVue® test
• Manufacture a successful, initial run of 100,000 sample cassettes in February, 2021

Quidel QuickVue:

• Will provide accurate test results in as little as 10 minutes
• Saves thousands of lives