DiaTropix

DiaTropix is a diagnostics manufacturing facility under director Amandou Sall, a virologist at the Institut Pasteur of Dakar. Sall previously was director of the WHO’s Collaborating Center for Arboviruses and Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers. DiaTropix aims to provide testing for underserved diseases that are endemic in Africa such as dengue. DiaTropix received funding from the Mérieux Foundation, the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, a French public research institute.

DiaTropix will be manufacturing diagnostic tests for COVID-19, developed by Mologic and the Institut Paseur de Dakar.