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Coppe Healthcare Solutions merger creates capacity for 1.5 Million COVID-19 tests per month

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Tropical Disease News
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Coppe Healthcare Solutions acquires California based Open CoVIDx; Merger creates capacity for 1.5 Million COVID-19 Tests per Month; Employer screening for Employee and Environment
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WAUKESHA, Wis., May 26, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Coppe Healthcare Solutions (Coppe Laboratories), a CLIA Certified Laboratory based in Waukesha, Wisconsin, has acquired Open CoVIDx, the laboratory division of the Open Medicine Institute based in San Francisco Bay area of California.
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The CEO of Coppe Laboratories is Dr. Konstance Knox, the Virologist who previously co-founded what is now Viracor-Eurofins in the year 2000. Dr. Knox has expanded Coppe's testing footprint to serve 1,000 Doctor's Offices in the United States, and internationally with a Coppe run Laboratory at the new 5,000 bed Hamptons Hospital, under development at Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) in Kenya.

Open CoVIDx is a division of the Open Medicine Institute, founded by the current CEO, Dr. Andy Kogelnik. It has a 104,000 square foot facility in the biotech incubator at a former pharmaceutical campus in Mountain View, CA.

The merger will become Coppe-Open CoVIDx Laboratories, and will combine the laboratory capacities of the two for a total of 1.5 million COVID-19 diagnostic tests per month, by end of June 2020. The increased capacity will put Coppe among the top 5 COVID-19 testing Laboratories in the United States.

The merger will allow Coppe Laboratories to provide employers in the USA and Kenya with COVID-19 diagnostic testing for employees, environmental testing of work places, and antibody testing within the FDA approved guidelines.

For media inquiries please email [email protected] +1 262.574.5074 http://www.coppelabs.com

 

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