Orasure Receives Grant to Develop Oral Test for Coronavirus Antibody

Lehigh Valley Business
June 10, 2020

Congratulations! Bethlehem’s OraSure Technologies Inc. received nearly $630,000 to help develop an oral test for coronavirus antibodies.

The funds come from a contract with the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to develop an enzyme-linked immunosorbent Assay, or ELISA, which can be used for the detection of human anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in oral fluid specimens. There currently are no oral fluid-based COVID antibody tests of the sort. The product is expected to increase laboratory COVID-19 antibody testing capacity.  For complete details […more]

OraSure receives $630K to help develop oral test for coronavirus antibody

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