Screening Drug Drivers SBRI Competition

Drug driving is an increasing problem on UK roads. Use of an oral fluid drug screening device would significantly assist the detection of drug drivers by the police. The Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB) and the Technology Strategy Board are launching a SBRI competition to fund development work such a device.

The aim of this competition is to identify drug detection technologies capable of detecting very low concentrations (ng/ml) of drugs and their active metabolites in oral fluid that can meet the challenging sensitivity, specificity and reproducibility requirements within a polydrug detection device at the police station.

Current Commercial-Off-The-Shelf devices generally suffer from either limited sensitivity or insufficient specificity. We are inviting industry and academia to provide ideas that will:
• detect parent drugs and their active metabolites in the region of n/ml or less;
• are reproducible;
• allow rapid result from sample loading (not more than 8 minutes);
• are physically robust, and;
• provide a chemically robust detection technique.

More detail of the competition is listed on the Technology Strategy Board website: http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/sbri/screening-for-dr...

The competition opens 3rd June 2010
Deadline for applications Noon, 15th July 2010

Please could you communicate this opportunity to businesses and encourage them to consider if they have any technology that could be applied to this area.

SBRI Team



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