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Akonni Wins $3M NIH Contract to Develop TB Sample Prep Device

Feb 05, 2019
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) — Akonni Biosystems said today that it has received a three-year, $3 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National Institutes of Health to continue work on a device to purify DNA from sputum for tuberculosis testing.

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