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Article: Aphios Gets NIH Grant for CFI Virus and Pathogen Inactivation Technology
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- August 7, 2009
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Wireless News
08-07-2009
Aphios Gets NIH Grant for CFI Virus and Pathogen Inactivation Technology
Type: News
Aphios Corp. announced that it has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop CFI as a generally-applicable virus and pathogen inactivation technology for human plasma, plasma products and biologics.
In a release, the Company noted:
The recent outbreaks of potentially pandemic strains of influenza such as the H1N1 swine flu and the H5N1 bird flu, the worldwide AIDS epidemic, the emergence of West Nile virus and Babesia spp, and the periodic emergence ...