Canada's GenePOC Expanding to Enter Lab, Point-of-Care MDx Market Next Year

Nov 18, 2015

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Canadian firm GenePOC recently expanded its staff and intends to enter the molecular diagnostics market with a Group B Streptococcus assay at the end of the second quarter of 2016 and a Clostridium difficile assay in Q4 2016.

The company will initially launch the tests as CE-IVD products in Europe, and is aiming for US Food and Drug Administration approval of its platform and assays in late 2016.

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