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Initially, the Board's focus is to seek commercial partners for theCompany's newly developed digital pregnancy reader. To help with thisinitiative, the Company has entered into a managed partnering agreement with amajor life science and biopharmaceutical business development company. Thistie up will complement the Company's efforts in identifying suitablepartnering candidates to work with IVMD Inc in making its' digital pregnancyreader market ready.
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Commenting on the launch of the Company's commercial developmentinitiative for the pregnancy reader, Mr. Graham Cooper, President and CEO forIVMD Inc, commented:
"Currently, over $700m is spent globally on pregnancy and fertilitydiagnostic devices. The market for these products is growing at 5% per yearand is highly price sensitive. Using our unique patented technology, we havedeveloped a device that both reduces manufacturing costs significantly, andwhich is more sensitive meaning that it can detect positive results earlierthan those devices currently on the market. Significantly, the device isenvironmentally friendly as it does not rely on batteries for its power. Allof these attributes play to the demands of manufacturers, distributors and endusers.
The technology underpinning our digital pregnancy reader is capable ofbeing adapted to suit a much wider variety of mass market tests, particularlyapplications of rapid immunoassay in point of care testing. This could includecardiac markers, allergy screening, fertility testing, drugs of abuse andinfectious diseases. With are confident that our business development effortswill help us to secure commercialization of our product in the very nearfuture."
About In Veritas Medical Diagnostics, Inc.
IVMD uses its proven, patented core technology to design, develop and testmedical devices for near patient testing and monitoring. Our products servelarge global markets in the monitoring of chronic conditions affecting largenumbers of the population.
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