Innovations
Mapp
Our innovation is a GIS-enabled digital platform that brings data from different sources onto one platform and visualises the insights based on patterns and relationships due to spatial relationships with interactive maps, dashboards which can be accessed via desktop and mobile applications…
Egg-based platform for design, development and manufacturing of COVID-19 countermeasures.
Avril Biopharma’s main focus is rapid development of diagnostic, vaccine and therapeutic products using bioinformatics to design these products and our AdCEV(TM) protein expression technology to produce them inexpensively in hen eggs.
We are using our platform to address the urgent public-…
iResponse Health COVID-19 Tracker
iResponse is an AI-driven digital health platform designed to implement preventive health diagnostics, improve patient care, send out early warning and alert notification, track, predict, analyse and deal with COVID-19 infectious disease threat in Nigeria.
It helps better the human condition…
CAD4COVID: Artificial Intelligence software for COVID-19 triage
Although SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests such as RT-PCR are the gold standard to confirm COVID-19, demand for PCR test-kits is extremely high and many countries face capacity limitations in the resources involved, thus timely access to rapid testing and diagnosis is critical. CT imaging has shown to be…
Citizen science-based remote parenting support for lifelong health during COVID-19 lockdown and beyond
Violence in families, including violence against children, and women are increasing in an alarming rate during COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdown. This initiative will implement and evaluate parenting information dissemination, and interactive learning via facilitated parent-support group-based…
Sanitise-O-Ring. Sanitizer dispensing bangle.
The Sanititise-O-Ring is a wearable sanitizer dispensing bangle.
It's affordability and ease-of-use makes it perfect for use by school children, health workers, general workers and the public.
It is mandatory to have sanitizer at the entrance of shops, but what about other…
Development of Filtering facepiece respirators (FFR) filtering performance testing test rig
The present research focuses on developing a filter performance testing competency of filtering face-piece respirator’s (FFR) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). This activity is in response to the expected shortage of medical personal protective equipment (PPE) related to the spread of…
COVID-19 Biosensing kit
COVID-19 Biosensing kit will be used to detect the virus via antigen-antibody reaction. Nanoparticle synthetic platform will be functional with antibody-immobilized complex and be fitted in a plastic device. By spitting and blowing on the device antibody-antigen interaction signal mechanism will…