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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-004256"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ISPC"
cik: "0001558569"
company_name: "iSpecimen Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T23:59:51.628691+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# iSpecimen secures suppliers for hMPV biospecimens amid China outbreak concerns

## Summary
- iSpecimen secured suppliers for human metapneumovirus (hMPV) biospecimens to meet potential demand.
- Virus causing hospital overruns in China; no vaccine exists, raising pandemic fears.
- Company expects researchers and vaccine developers to require hMPV specimens for study.
- iSpecimen leverages its network of hospitals, labs, biobanks to procure specimens globally.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-004256
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ISPC
- cik: 0001558569
- company_name: iSpecimen Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1558569/000121390025004256/0001213900-25-004256-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1558569/000121390025004256/ea0227841-8k_ispecimen.htm

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