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OraSure Technologies and AbbVie Agree to an Early Termination of HCV Co-Promotion Agreement

July 1, 2016 6:00 AM EDT

BETHLEHEM, Pa., July 01, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OraSure Technologies (NASDAQ: OSUR), a market leader in point of care diagnostics, announced today that OraSure Technologies and AbbVie have mutually agreed to an early termination of their Master Program Services and Co-Promotion Agreement under which the companies have been co-promoting OraSures OraQuick® HCV Rapid Antibody Test in the United States. The agreement was originally scheduled to continue through December 31, 2019 and will now end on December 31, 2016.

Under the agreement, which was signed in June 2014, OraSure granted exclusive rights to... More