Fairway Medical Technologies, Inc.
Fairway Medical Technology to Develop Biosensor for Blood Pathogens and Warfare Threats
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 21st, 2008
Fairway Medical Technologies, Inc. has received a $900,000, 3-year contract from the Department of the Navy to apply its optoacoustic technology to the real-time detection of blood borne pathogens and biological warfare agents under battlefield conditions. This grant is part of a larger, $3 million project led by Prof. Randolph Glickman, Principal Investigator from the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHSC) at San Antonio.
The grant, entitled "Rapid identification of pathogenic agents in biological samples using pulsed laser optoacoustic spectroscopy with targeted nanoparticle contrast agents," will be carried out as a collaborative project between UTHSC,...
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