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Quanterix Announces Simoa® Success Grant Program to Accelerate Promising Infectious Disease & Immunology Research
Grants will award researchers seeking to harness biomarkers to improve diagnosis, prognosis or treatment efficacy studies with access to Quanterix’
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nGrants will award researchers seeking to harness biomarkers to improve diagnosis, prognosis or treatment efficacy studies with access to Quanterix’ ultra-sensitive detection solutions\n\n BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nQuanterix Corporation (NASDAQ: QTRX), a company digitizing analysis to advance the science of precision health, today announced a call for proposals for the Simoa® Success Grant Program. Designed to support United States-based investigators addressing basic or pre-clinical questions in Infectious Disease and Immunology, the Simoa® Success Grant Program will award up to seven winning proposals with access to Quanterix’ industry-leading biomarker analysis technology, assay kits and consumables to complete their research.\n\n\n“We’ve always believed that innovation comes through collaboration and in uniting with the Powering Precision Health (PPH) ecosystem to advance critical COVID-19 research, we’ve realized there is enormous untapped utility for biomarkers to improve the way we see and respond to immunological diseases,” said Kevin Hrusovsky, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman, Quanterix and Founder, Powering Precision Health. “Our Simoa® technology brings exquisite and unmatched sensitivity and specificity to biomarker analysis, uniquely positioning us to fuel new breakthroughs in infectious disease and immunology. Through this grant program, we hope to catalyze disruptive ideas to help patients and precision health.”\n\n\nSpecial consideration will be given to projects aimed at demonstrating a need for highly sensitive and specific protein detection to advance research related to the diagnosis, prognosis or treatment of diseases engaging the immune system. Applicants are encouraged to present a plan for sample analysis with Simoa® Assay Kits or a plan for development of a novel Simoa® assay utilizing the Quanterix SP-X® Imaging and Analysis System, a complete benchtop biomarker detection platform that offers true multiplex detection at both acute and baseline levels, and custom Simoa® Homebrew assay kits. As many as 130 samples may be submitted for analysis with one assay kit, or up to 65 samples may be submitted for analysis with two assay kits. All samples must be collected and stored by the applicant’s laboratory.\n\n\nUpon the conclusion of the call for proposals, a Quanterix-designated ...