Recipient Organization
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
(N/A)
ITHACA,NY 14853
Performing Department
Diagnostic Laboratory
Non Technical Summary
This project seeks to find new, innovative diagnostic methods or reagents that will improve the ability or capacity to diagnose animal diseases. In some cases this may be simply a faster turnaround time for the testing, in others it may be a test with greater sensitivity or specificity for the disease and in some cases it may be reducing the cost of testing. It may also involve development of a test method or reagent where none previously existed to detect a certain disease agent.
Animal Health Component
(N/A)
Research Effort Categories
Basic
(N/A)
Applied
(N/A)
Developmental
(N/A)
Goals / Objectives
To develop new veterinary diagnostic methods and/or reagents with the potential to become routine, commercially available diagnostic testing services.
Project Methods
The project will use standard analytic methods to evaluate potential diagnostic methods and technologies in a variety of modalities (e.g. PCR, ELISA, etc...). Potential methods will be bench validated against existing "gold standard" tests to determine analytical sensitivity and specificity and other test performance parameters. Candidate methods will also be evaluated for appropriateness and applicability by stakeholders of the Animal Health Diagnostic Center to estimate the usefulness and cost elasticity of a potential new method or reagent.