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Cornell University

PORTENT

A Center for Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection and Cancer for Global Health

Team

Center Directors

David Erickson

Principal Investigator and Co-Director
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
de54@cornell.edu

Saurabh Mehta

Principal Investigator and Co-Director
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
smehta@cornell.edu

Center Leadership

Nitika Pai

Dissemination & Training Core Lead
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

Marshall Glesby

Clinical Core Co-Lead
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York City, USA

Julia Finkelstein

Clinical Core Co-Lead
Cornell University
Ithaca, USA

Sam Sia

Lab-to-Market Lead
Columbia University
New York, USA

Clinical Site Leads

Zhen Zhao

Weill Cornell Medicine
New York City, US

Aggrey Semeere

Infectious Diseases Institute
Kampala, Uganda

W.B. Cardenas

Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
Guayaquil, Ecuador

Tony Raj

St. John’s Research Institute
Bengaluru, India

Center Administrator and Project Staff

Priyanka Chakravarty

Assistant Director
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
pc726@cornell.edu