Biotech startup Erada Technology Alliance — which was founded last year by two SA doctors — has secured a €288 000 grant from the De Beers Group for their rapid diagnostic test for malaria.
With the help of the John Hopkins University and Dinglasan Malaria Laboratory, Dr Benji Pretorius and Dr Richard Schmidt, have developed the saliva-based malaria asymptomatic and asexual rapid test (Smaart) test known as Salva! which the startup claims is a world first.
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