Dr Pantelis Georgiou is an Electrical Engineer who specialises in Biomedical Electronics within the Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial. One of his research projects focusses on using microchip technology to realise a lab-on-chip device that he has used to create handheld, low cost, rapid test for infectious diseases such as malaria and dengue. In this session he and his team, which includes Dr Nicolas Moser, will discuss how they have adapted this technology to create a handheld molecular test that can identify the presence of COVID-19 from patient samples within 20 mins.