Renishaw Diagnostics signs contract with Gen-Probe

Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd, a leading provider of trace level detection technologies based on the exploitation of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and surface enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS) for infectious disease research and molecular diagnostics applications, has established a contract reagent manufacturing agreement with Gen-Probe’s Cardiff facility.

David Burns, CEO of Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd said, "We are very pleased to have engaged Gen-Probe to manufacture our RenDx molecular diagnostics kits for us under international standards. Gen- Probe has a very successful track record in manufacturing and selling their own nucleic acid based diagnostics kits to high quality

manufacturing standards and we selected them as our manufacturing partner of choice for our RenDx reagent kits because of this experience.

We are moving our RenDx products into clinical evaluation studies in Europe and the USA for our three multiplex infectious disease panels and it was important to secure manufacturing of these to the standards that will allow us to go for regulatory compliance approvals to market our products in Europe and the USA as certified in-vitro diagnostics products." Dr Molly Price-Jones, Senior Director of the Gen-Probe Cardiff site, said, "We are delighted to be providing contract services for Renishaw Diagnostics Ltd to manufacture its in vitro diagnostic kits in our GMP manufacturing facilities in the UK."