Biocartis Group NV announced that it has received a EUR 1.4 million grant from VLAIO, the Flanders organization for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, for the ongoing development of a new generation technology that will be deployed on the easy-to-use and fully automated molecular diagnostics platform Idylla™. The VLAIO grant is intended to support the ongoing development of a new Idylla™ technology, which will enable the off-line customization of the Idylla™ cartridge1. The first generation Idylla™ cartridges contain not only the generic components for sample preparation and biomarker detection, but also the biomarker-specific reagents. The next generation Idylla™ cartridges on the other hand would only contain the generic components for sample preparation and biomarker detection, and would be made biomarker-specific through the addition by the user of a ready-to-use mixture containing biomarker-specific reagents. This new Idylla™ technology would be fully compatible with the current Idylla™ cartridge manufacturing lines and installed base, and is expected to further reduce the Idylla™ assay development time and cost.