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LumiraDx Gets $14.2M in Gates Foundation Grants to Develop Point-of-Care Molecular TB Test

The test, which is being designed for use with the company's LumiraDx point-of-care platform, would be the first molecular test to run on the system.

Sherlock Biosciences Awarded $2M by Gates Foundation for Instrument-Free Diagnostics

The funding will be used to advance the firm's assay menu as well as to develop an integrated prototype diagnostic device.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Gates Foundation Award $2M for Metagenomic Pathogen Research

Ten new grantees will receive up to $200,000 each to conduct sequencing-based research into novel and emerging pathogens in low- and middle-income countries.

BugSeq Bioinformatics, Philippine Genome Center Mindanao Team on Infectious Disease Surveillance

A subgrant from the PHA4GE program, funded by the Gates Foundation, will support the creation of a genomics-based surveillance system in the Philippines.

Sapient Receives $9.2M Grant From Gates Foundation for Biomarker Discovery Project

The company will use the grant to identify metabolic biomarkers for health problems disproportionately affecting women and infants in developing countries.

Jun 9, 2022

Phase Genomics Wins $5.5M in NIH, Gates Foundation Grants for Therapeutic Phage Discovery

Dec 16, 2020

Sherlock Biosciences Receives $5M Gates Foundation Grant for COVID-19 Self-Test

Oct 12, 2020

Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative Launches With $100M Investment

Mar 27, 2020

New Method for Detecting Point Mutations Could Significantly Impact Low-Cost Diagnostics
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Feb 20, 2020

Biological Dynamics Gets $1M Grant to Advance TB Test

Sep 26, 2019

A-Alpha Bio Raises $2.8 million in Seed Financing to Develop NGS-Based Protein Interaction Tech
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Jun 24, 2019

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Aims to Enable Infectious Disease Sequencing Globally

Feb 25, 2019

Phase Genomics Wins $200K Grant to Develop Microbiome Discovery Tech

Feb 21, 2019

With Studies Underway in South America and Asia, QuantuMDx Readies POC Platform for Launch
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Nov 19, 2018

Two Pore Guys Receive $2.8M TB Dx Grant From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Oct 19, 2017

At ASHG, Bill Gates and Francis Collins Discuss Global Health and Genetics in the Computational Age

Dec 14, 2016

ReadCoor Wins $2.5M Gates Grant for FISSEQ Pathogen Detection Technology

Apr 6, 2016

NGS-Based Pipeline Used to Develop Improved Parasitic Worm MDx
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Sep 21, 2015

Green Super Rice Project Selects Affymetrix for Genotyping Activities

Jul 6, 2015

Ceres Eyes $5M Funding Round to Broadly Commercialize Lyme Disease Dx
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Jun 30, 2015

Ceres Receives $746K from Gates Foundation for TB Test Development

Mar 19, 2015

Study IDs TB Strains in Swaziland with Drug Resistance Mutations Not Detected by Cepheid Xpert Test
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Feb 4, 2015

Sera Increases Series B Round to $25M with $5M from Gates Foundation

Dec 15, 2014

Critical Path Receives $3M Gates Foundation Award for TB Genome Database
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Nov 13, 2014

Cepheid Receives $3.3M Grant to Develop Ebola MDx Assay

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Study Reveals New Details About Genetics of Major Cause of Female Infertility

Researchers in Nature Medicine conducted a whole-exome sequencing study of mote than a thousand patients with premature ovarian insufficiency.

Circulating Tumor DNA Shows Potential as Biomarker in Rare Childhood Cancer

A study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has found that circulating tumor DNA levels in rhabdomyosarcoma may serve as a biomarker for prognosis.

Study Recommends Cancer Screening for Dogs Beginning Age Seven, Depending on Breed

PetDx researchers report in PLOS One that annual cancer screening for dogs should begin by age seven.

White-Tailed Deer Harbor SARS-CoV-2 Variants No Longer Infecting Humans, Study Finds

A new study in PNAS has found that white-tailed deer could act as a reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 variants no longer found among humans.