MGRC bags surveillance deal from MoH

MGRC staff at work in the company's lab. - Filepic

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre Bhd (MGRC), a genomics and biopharmaceutical specialist, has bagged a contract for a Covid-19 surveillance by the Institute for Medical Research (IMR), the biomedical research arm under the Ministry of Health (MoH).

In a statement yesterday, MGRC said the company was one of the private laboratories that IMR has engaged to outsource genome surveillance of SARS-CoV2.