At the forefront of MRIGlobal's disease response efforts is our mobile laboratories. During the 2015 outbreak, we were able to send labs outfitted with testing and diagnostic capabilities to aid in disease detection.

Building on lessons learned, our team of engineers evolved our mobile lab technology. Our Athena Mobile Lab goes beyond traditional mobile laboratory designs. Instead of using an ISO container as the basis of the design, our engineers have created a fully customizable structure that greatly increases the capability of a mobile lab. As a result, we developed a lab that improves work ergonomics, while still allowing for easy transport via trucks, boats, railcars, and airplanes.

We designed the Athena Mobile Lab to fill the need for a gold standard mobile model that allowed diagnostic assays to be closer to a collection event. Their goal is to collect the chemical, biological, biometric, and other evidence necessary to reach a diagnosis and decrease the time between collection and test results.

I spoke in a video a few years back on our mobile lab capabilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7W3Bd4T2cY

My colleague, Chris Hollars, has also spoken about our Athena Mobile Lab in more detail in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGrVqn-mETc

For more insight into our current Ebola response efforts, listen to my recent podcast with our COO, Dean Gray and Program Manager, Peter Anderson: https://www.mriglobal.org/gray-matter-podcast-conversation-with-peter-anderson-and-jay-mansheim-engineering-an-ebola-response/