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Fyodor is rapidly advancing the development of its innovative Urine Malaria Test (UMT), in-licensed from The Johns Hopkins University. This platform technology provides a tool for the rapid diagnosis of clinical malaria from urine. The UMT is designed to detect one or more novel malaria-specific proteins present in the urine of clinically-infected people, and can easily be performed by an untrained individual using a urine sample. Initial preclinical validation testing performed by Johns Hopkins University demonstrated the assay to be highly accurate for the detection of clinical malaria in people with fever. Based on positive results from the initial preclinical validation studies, additional field testing in endemic regions is currently ongoing via a three-way collaboration involving Fyodor Biotechnologies, Johns Hopkins University and the US Army–Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.
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