GenePOC Gets Additional Debiopharm Investment; on Track to Launch Spinning Disk PCR Platform

Sep 01, 2016

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) –GenePOC announced this week that Swiss pharmaceutical company Debiopharm has invested "tens of millions of dollars" into accelerating development of the Quebec City-based firm's molecular diagnostic platform and infectious disease assays.

The new funding will be used to support commercialization as well as to "continue our new assay development and have a constant flow of approximately two assays per year launched into the market," Herbert Torfs, GenePOC's vice president of business development and strategy, told GenomeWeb in an email.

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