Minute Insight: SpectralMD Signs Another Contract With BARDA, Worth $149m

The diagnostic company has secured more government funding for DeepView, a product it has developed to assess the healing of certain types of wound. In total, BARDA has supported SpectralMD with almost a quarter of a billion dollars.

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SpectralMD has been awarded a $149m contract by the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

The contract supports SpectralMD’s DeepView System, an artificial intelligence tool to assess the severity and the healing of a

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