May 01, 2025
$2.7M NIH grant to fund first comprehensive syphilis test
With a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Penn State Professor Dipanjan Pan will lead a team in developing a one-step confirmatory laboratory test that can definitively diagnose active syphilis infection within 10 minutes.

With a four-year, $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Penn State Professor Dipanjan Pan will lead a team in developing a one-step confirmatory laboratory test that can definitively diagnose active syphilis infection within 10 minutes.
Credit: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/27m-nih-grant-fund-first-comprehensive-syphilis-test