NEW YORK – OpGen said on Wednesday that its subsidiary Curetis has received more than €350,000 ($410,000) from the Federal German Ministry of Education and Research to use artificial intelligence for developing a test for carbapenem resistance in Gram-negative bacteria.
The project includes Curetis, based in Holzgerlingen, Germany, and collaborators at the Research Campus InfectoGnostics and is coordinated by Jena University Hospital. Curetis alone received €350,000 for the project, which is expected to start this month and run until August 2025.