University of Maine System Partners with The Jackson Laboratory and ConvenientMD for COVID-19 Testing Services

University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy and Chancellor Dannel Malloy announced today that the University of Maine System (UMS) has entered into partnerships with nonprofit biomedical research institution The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) and ConvenientMD (CMD) to provide comprehensive COVID-19 testing services.

Under the agreements, CMD will provide “wrap around” services, establishing sites at each UMS university to gather samples and administer and report results. The samples will be tested by JAX for the presence of the virus. The partnership will focus on RT-PCR testing, which is considered one of the most reliable COVID-19 tests, with high accuracy and low false positives. Read more

Related Posts

UMaine professor McGill receives top German research award

ORONO — University of Maine ecology professor Brian McGill was awarded the Humboldt Research Award, one of the most prestigious scientific...

20 July 2023

Four Maine workforce programs could get $6.5M in fed funding

Four workforce training programs in Maine could receive nearly $6.5 million in federal funding through the markup of the fiscal year 2024 financial...

18 July 2023

Music as medicine: FDA approves stroke damage therapy from Portland startup

Doctors may soon start writing an unconventional prescription to help stroke survivors regain their ability to walk: music. MedRhythms, a Portland...

14 July 2023