David Erickson is the director of the NIH POCTRN Center “PORTENT – Center for Point of Care Technologies for Nutrition, Infection, and Cancer in Global Health." His research focuses on global health technology, medical diagnostics, microfluidics, photonics, and nanotechnology. Research in the Erickson lab is or has been primarily funded through grants from the NIH, NSF, ARPA-E, ONR, DoD, DOE, DARPA, USAID, USDA, Nutrition International, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, and other foundations.