IN THE NEWS | HPR: FDA Approves Emergency Use for First Rapid COVID-19 Test Developed in Hawaiʻi
Oceanit CEO, Dr. Patrick Sullivan joined Hawaii Public Radio host, Catherine Cruz to discuss the ASSURE-100 Rapid COVID-19 Test. Their ten minute discussion covered the research & development that went into ASSURE-100, the FDA EUA process, and what comes next.…
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PRESS RELEASE | National Institutes of Health approves next round of ASSURE-19 funding under the RADx ‘Next’ program
Honolulu, HI | Oceanit Laboratories received approval from NIH for next round funding under the RADx initiative, receiving an additional $250,000 for further development of the ASSURE-19 rapid Covid-19 saliva test. With this latest round of funding, Oceanit will have…
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IN THE NEWS | The call for rapid, point-of-need Covid-19 testing
In an opinion piece for the Civil Beat Ideas Section, State Representatives, Bob McDermott (House District 4: Ewa, Ewa Beach, Ewa Gentry and Iroquois Point) and Gene Ward (Hawaii House Minority Leader) called for CARES Act funds to be applied…
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IN THE NEWS | The Aloha Protocol for a safer reopening with ASSURE-19
As Oceanit moves ahead with in-vitro and in-vivo testing for the ASSURE-19 rapid point-of-need test kits, Hawaii is seeing high, sustained counts for new covid-19 cases each day. Oahu reentered lockdown last week with the U.S Surgeon General, Jerome Adams…
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