research grant

The funding is being provided by the Flemish government's Agency for Innovation and Entrepreneurship to support the three-year development project.

The platform is designed to isolate exosomes from blood, then release their extracellular RNA cargo for analysis as biomarkers for diseases including cancer.

The drug developer said that the biomarker panel will form the basis of a planned point-of-care test for acute respiratory distress syndrome.

The assays will combine genomic and gene expression analyses to better understand driver mutations in prostate, breast, and pancreatic cancers.

The grant recipients will receive up to $5 million each and are led by scientists at institutions including Harvard Medical School and the Cleveland Clinic.

The funding will be used to run a study of breath-based biomarkers and measures of small airway function to enable the definitive diagnosis of asthma.

The Army previously awarded Abbott $11.3 million to develop a TBI test. Abbott has worked with DoD since 2014 to develop tests to help evaluate potential concussions.