ProPhase Labs, Inc. Announces Opening of Large CLIA Lab Covid Testing Facility in Garden City, New York
January 29, 2021 at 08:30 am
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ProPhase Labs, Inc. announced the opening of its 25,000 square foot facility in Garden City, New York. The new lab features technology and offers a wide range of laboratory testing services for diagnosis, screening and evaluation of diseases, including COVID-19 and Respiratory Pathogen Panel Molecular tests. The lab features the latest Thermo Fisher Scientific lab equipment and employs approximately 75 technical staff. The Company will add additional technical staff to meet client needs as the lab continues to ramp-up. The lab is already processing COVID-19 tests, and the Company plans to expand lab capacity to be able to process up to 50,000 COVID-19 tests per day by the end of the current fiscal quarter. The technology embedded in the new lab will enable the Company to offer highly competitive pricing to customers and to deliver test results, in most cases, within 24 hours. The lab also will be operating and processing tests seven days a week.
ProPhase Labs, Inc. is a biopharma, genomics, and diagnostics company. The Company provides whole genome sequencing solutions, while developing potential diagnostics and therapeutics in the fight against cancer. This includes a potentially life-saving cancer test focused on early detection of esophageal cancer and potential breakthrough cancer therapeutics with novel mechanisms of action. Its segments include diagnostic services and consumer products. The diagnostic services segment provides COVID-19 diagnostic information services to a broad range of customers in the United States, including health plans, third party payers and government organizations. The consumer products segment is engaged in the research, development, manufacture, distribution, marketing and sale of over-the-counter consumer healthcare products and dietary supplements in the United States and also provides personal genomics products and services. Its CLIA labs and diagnostic technology provide wellness solutions.
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