Research Funding
News on research grants, RFPs, government funding trends in genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics.
Through Agency-Funded Contractors, NIAID Aims to Help Bring Infectious Disease Tests to Market
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The Diagnostics Development Services program is, so far, being used to help point-of-care testing firm Fluxergy bring to market a test for sexually transmitted infections.
Pattern Bioscience Wins BARDA Contract Worth up to $40.9M
The contract's base award is $22.5 million, which Pattern said will support the late-stage development of its single-cell microbiology ID and AST system.
UK Provides £1.4M in Funding for Two-Year Study on Genedrive Test to Prevent Newborn Hearing Loss
The Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust will study across the UK the use of Genedrive's MT-RNR1 ID Kit as a pharmacogenomic test to prevent hearing loss.
ARPA-H Awards $110M to Commercial, Academic Teams Tackling Women's Health
The awardees included several diagnostics firms, among them Aspira Women's Health, which received $10 million for development of its EndoMDx test.
RADx Awards $8M to Maternal Health Challenge Winners
The winning devices include home-based, point-of-care, and wearable technologies to improve postpartum health outcomes.