Aptagen: CDC Awards Aptagen $1MM Contract for Parasitic Disease Diagnostic

(marketscreener.com) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a 2-year, $988,300 SBIR contract to Aptagen, LLC to develop an aptamer (chemical antibody) based diagnostic for human carriers of the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium (T. solium). This diagnostic will be used to help prevent Neurocysticercosis (NCC), the leading cause of adult onset...http://www.marketscreener.com/news/CDC-Awards-Aptagen-1MM-Contract-for-Parasitic-Disease-Diagnostic--29687372/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=20191205