Antibody Solutions Secures Grant for Challenging Diagnostic Initiative
Antibody Solutions, a leading provider of fit-for-purpose antibody discovery services, announced today that it received a 15-month grant for nearly $1.2 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop reagents for highly-specified rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) to detect malaria.
- Antibody Solutions, a leading provider of fit-for-purpose antibody discovery services, announced today that it received a 15-month grant for nearly $1.2 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop reagents for highly-specified rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) to detect malaria.
- The end result is that those RDTs are unable to differentiate between different strains of malaria,” explained John Kenney, PhD, co-founder and president of Antibody Solutions.
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Antibody Solutions has already begun work to identify these new antibody reagents by harnessing Cellestive, its antibody discovery platform, that includes multiple discovery pathways such as hybridoma library, primary B-cell screening, and guided next-generation sequencing (NGS). - The grant from the foundation will also allow Antibody Solutions to work with industry experts in both public health and the development and deployment of healthcare solutions in low- and middle-income (LMIC) settings, ensuring that these reagents will be widely available.