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Article: Aphios Gets NIH ARRA Challenge Grant.
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- Health & Beauty Close-Up
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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Aphios Corp. said that it has been awarded a RC-1 Challenge grant (No. 1RC1HL102822-01) from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institute of Health's (NIH) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to develop a generally-applicable pathogen inactivation technology for blood products.
In a release, the Company noted:
The recent outbreaks of pandemic strains of the influenza virus such as the H1N1 swine flu, the worldwide AIDS epidemic and the periodic emergence of Ebola and SARS have highlighted a persistent concern in the health care community -- the need for effective pathogen inactivation and removal techniques ...