To reduce morbidity and improve quality of life for persons living with HIV/AIDS, the World Health Organization (WHO) is rapidly expanding access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in developing countries. However, the expansion is significantly restricted by the lack of cost-effective point-of-care (POC) viral load assays that cn effectively reach patients living in rural, isolated settings. In developed countries, HIV-1 viral load is regularly used to closely monitor and assess the patient response to ART, to ensure drug adherence and to stage disease progression. In contrast, developing countries are using CD4+ cell count and clinical symptoms to guide ART following the WHO guidelines with the exception of infants, where viral load assays are required. This is because HIV-1 viral load assays are expensive ($50-200 per test), instrument-dependent, and technically complex. Recent studies, however, have shown that CD4 cell counting strategy cannot detect early virological failure. This failure leads to accumulation of drug-resistant strains in infected individuals and reduces the efficacy of first-line drugs. Thus, a rapid, inexpensive, and simple viral load test is urgently needed at the point of care (POC). Here, microfluidics and optical imaging technologies will be used to create a novel HIV-1 viral load microchip. It was hypothesized that the developed HIV-1 viral load microchip can: (i) selectively capture HIV from whole blood, (ii) be sensitive within the clinical cut-off (with ?10% error range), inexpensive (<$1), rapid (within 15 minutes), and automated to handle finger-prick whole blood (100 ?L) to aid in quality care and treatment at the POC. This is a technology driven proposal motivated by the urgent significant clinical need. Prior work has shown the proof-of-concept that HIV-1 can be captured and quantified from patient whole blood on-chip. The following distinct but interrelated specific aims are proposed:
Aim 1 : To build disposable microchips to capture HIV-1, Aim 2: To develop a portable system for on-chip HIV-1 viral load by integrating HIV-1 capturing microchips with a detection/quantification system, and Aim 3: To validate the microchip technology with 200 HIV-infected samples. This proposed technology is broadly applicable to other infectious diseases having a reasonably well-described biomarker available such as influenza, hepatitis, malaria and tuberculosis.

Public Health Relevance

To reduce morbidity and to improve quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS; the access to antiretroviral treatment is rapidly expanding in developing countries. However; this expansion is significantly restricted by the lack of cost-effective viral load monitoring tools. To aid in quality care and treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS; we propose a novel HIV viral load microchip; which is: (i) capable of selectively capturing HIV from whole blood; (ii) sensitive within the clinical cut-off (with ?10%) error range; inexpensive (<$1);rapid (within 15 minutes); and automated to handle finger-prick whole blood (100 ?L).

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
7R01AI093282-04
Application #
8943940
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZRG1-AARR-E (11))
Program Officer
Fitzgibbon, Joseph E
Project Start
2012-07-15
Project End
2016-06-30
Budget Start
2014-07-03
Budget End
2015-06-30
Support Year
4
Fiscal Year
2014
Total Cost
$416,374
Indirect Cost
$156,951
Name
Stanford University
Department
Radiation-Diagnostic/Oncology
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
009214214
City
Stanford
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
94304
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