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RADx Expects COVID-19 Portfolio to Accelerate an Era of At-Home Infectious Disease Testing

Feb 17, 2021
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Madeleine Johnson
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NEW YORK – The National Institutes of Health's Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics team has closed the submission process and earmarked $1.2 billion to support SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics from more than 40 labs and companies.

The final RADx portfolio of products to be developed and scaled includes a diversity of diagnostics from companies such as Illumina, Quidel, Fluidigm, and Mesa Biotech, and is likely to result in a near-term manufacturing boom in rapid antigen tests and over-the-counter home-use diagnostics.

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