Staff Profile

Sally McFall, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
Center for Innovation in Global Health Technologies (CIGHT)
Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
Ph.D., Microbiology & Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago

Phone: (847) 467-2560
Fax:
E-mail: s-mcfall@northwestern.edu

Research Interests

CIGHT was created to develop and produce affordable diagnostic devices for infectious diseases plaguing developing countries. One of our initial projects is to develop a point-of-care quantitative RT-PCR assay to monitor the viral load of patients infected with HIV-1. My specific role is to develop and optimize the molecular biological components of this assay including RNA purification, reverse transcription and PCR.