Tyrian Diagnostics First Sales of ReadRite® ImmunoScanner to Bayer CropScience AG
02 September 2009 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Tyrian Diagnostics Limited (ASX:TDX) announced today that
it has completed manufacture and delivery of an initial order of
ReadRite® ImmunoScanners to Bayer CropScience AG (“Bayer”). The
ReadRite® ImmunoScanner will be used with the ReadRite-Alpha
Amylase test kit to provide Bayer customers with a rapid, easy to
use, and quantitative method for determining the quality of wheat
at Point of Need. Each ReadRite ImmunoScanner is able to process
several thousand test kits.
The majority of the ReadRite® ImmunoScanners will be distributed
into Canada to support Bayer’s efforts in the ReadRite®
Alpha-Amylase product launch and initial market roll-out in North
America. The balance will be delivered to other countries to
commence market seeding of ReadRite® products.
“The launch of the ReadRite® product is a major accomplishment
for Tyrian, and validates our DiagnostIQ™ platform in the
agriculture industry,” said Jenny Harry, PhD, CEO, Tyrian
Diagnostics. Production planning is now underway to support the
product’s forecast demands for the next twelve months.
The ReadRite® ImmunoScanner is central to Bayer’s launch of a
ReadRite® diagnostic product portfolio, with the Alpha-Amylase test
being the first product to be commercialised using this technology.
Over the next 12 months, the technology and product scope will be
expanded to include multiple test applications in line with the
product pipeline, with a second test currently in co-development
with Bayer for commercialisation.
“The successful delivery of the co-branded ReadRite®
ImmunoScanners comes after a rigorous internal design verification
and validation program of the hardware, software and system to
ensure compliance to the product’s internal design specifications
and the global regulatory compliance requirements,” commented
Michelle Gow, Tyrian’s Head of Product Development & Regulatory
Affairs. Compliance with the mandatory standards required for CE
mark (Europe), RoHS (Europe), FCC Part 15 (US 47 CFR §15)
and C-Tick (Australia) creates a pathway for the product to be
marketed in other regions such as Europe and Australia.
About Tyrian’s DiagnostIQ Reader
Tyrian’s DiagnostIQ Reader is a proprietary device that utilises
optical detection technology combined with customized software to
provide a quantitative measure of the level of diagnostic targets
in samples processed in Tyrian’s point of need DiagnostIQ tests.
The Reader can be configured to detect diagnostic targets in a wide
range of sample types, and therefore has utility in the healthcare,
agricultural, and veterinary fields. Currently, the Reader is
marketed by Bayer as the ReadRite® ImmunoScanner for use with the
ReadRite® Alpha-Amylase test for wheat quality, developed and
manufactured by Tyrian.
About Tyrian Diagnostics
Tyrian Diagnostics (ASX:TDX) is a diagnostics company with
expertise in biomarker discovery and validation and diagnostic test
development and a core focus on respiratory and infectious
diseases. In addition, Tyrian can partner in alternative fields
given its capabilities to work across the entire spectrum of
diagnostic test development – from identification and isolation of
biomarkers, point-of-need test design, clinical development or
field testing to final product. Tyrian’s product pipeline includes:
ReadRite® for measuring wheat quality, which is partnered with
Bayer CropScience; and a rapid test for active tuberculosis, in
collaboration with Becton Dickinson and Company.
Additional information about Tyrian Diagnostics can be found at
www.tyriandx.com
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