Innovation Anthology #296:
One company that received an Alberta Innovation Voucher this year is D-TEX Inc.
D-TEX has taken molecular detection technology discovered at the University of Calgary and developed a product to test for e.coli and listeria.
Using the D-TEX kit, the wait time for results is reduced from 3 or 4 days down to 5 minutes.
According to CEO John Murphy, his company is now working with ACAMP, the nanotechnology product development centre to refine the test kit. And the $50,000 Innovation Voucher will help in getting D-TEX to market.
JOHN MURPHY: The money that we will receive from that will allow us to make the device that we have a little bit smaller and a little bit more economical to create. And so we’re working with folks like ACAMP here because as you go through that process there’s a lot of manufacturing issues and a lot of cost reduction, engineering, reengineering issues. And they’ve got a lot of experience in that so they help us through that so we don’t have to do it twice.
The D-TEX pathogen kit will help food processors avoid product recalls. And future products may help rural consumers test for e.coli in their water.
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Program Date: 2010-03-09