Team Members: Raymond Lee, Aleo Mok, Jessica Wen, Elaine Su

Capstone Clients: Asa Tapley, UCSF School of Medicine, UC Berkeley School of Public Health Joint Program; Lina Nilsson, Ph.D., UC Berkeley

Purpose: Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that afflicts 9 million new individuals per year. In conjunction with the CellScope team at UC Berkeley, this Capstone team developed a low-cost, portable device to generate consistent and high-quality sputum samples for the diagnosis of tuberculosis via cell phone based imaging.