CPHD - Cephid (CPHD)

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7:24AM On The Wires (WIRES) : Cepheid (CPHD) announced that, together with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey , it has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop sample processing and amplification methods for detection of bloodstream bacteria using nested polymerase chain reaction on the GeneXpert System. The $1.3 mln grant is for the first year of an expected five-year, $5.5 mln program.