A local startup centred on John Lewis's (FOMD) work is one of the first businesses to set up shop in a new downtown shared lab space for health tech companies.

Paige Parsons - 26 October 2018

A local startup with plans to market a more accurate prostate cancer screening test is one of the first businesses to set up shop in a new downtown shared lab space for health tech companies.

"Being downtown, in more of a business environment out of the university, I think is going to have a lot of benefits for us as we start to grow and commercialize our technology," said Colin Coros, the chief commercialization officer with Nanostics Precision Health on Friday at the launch of TEC Centre Labs in Enterprise Square.

The 12-person company is one-and-a-half years old, and centred on University of Alberta researcher Dr. John Lewis' work that identified biomarkers that led to the development of a prostate screening test that Coros said is 40 per cent more accurate than what is currently available.

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