FDA awards contract to develop promising new technology to test radiation countermeasures

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Title: FDA awards contract to develop promising new technology to test radiation countermeasures

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FDA awards contract to develop promising new technology to test radiation countermeasures

08/12/2013 01:43 PM EDT

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded a $5.6 million contract to Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering to apply its breakthrough organs-on-chips technology to assess medical countermeasures for treating acute radiation syndrome (ARS), also known as radiation sickness.

 

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