Dr. Deepjyoti Paul, MK-Bhan Research Fellow working with Dr. Bhabatosh Das has been chosen as a recipient of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Professional Development Award for his work on “A rapid point-of-care dipstick assay for differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 variants in COVID-19 patients.” As part of this award, he has been invited for an oral presentation at the International Congress of Infectious Diseases (ISID) 2022. The team comprising of Dr. Deepjyoti Paul, Dr. Jyoti Verma and Dr. Bhabatosh Das, developed a rapid point-of-care test of SARS-CoV-2 patients, which can differentiate Delta, BA.1 and BA.2 variants at the same time of confirmation of the infection in the patient. This assay is highly specific and can work even in the case of low viral load as well and the results can be visualised by the naked eye and interpreted easily.