PBD Biotech raises further £2.4m for its breakthrough TB blood test

Human tuberculosis is second only to Covid as the world’s most fatal infectious disease; although treatable, there remains a global unmet need to diagnose the disease at an earlier stage and to identify carriers that may develop the disease. To address these objectives, PBD Biotech has developed a rapid screening blood test that shows promise for identifying people with the disease as well as a subgroup with pre-clinical infection at higher risk of developing the disease, offering the potential to revolutionise management of TB. The company has raised follow-on funding of £2.4M to support further clinical trials.