The Brock Press just published an exciting story about how COVID-19 Testing Kits are being produced here in Niagara by Thorold-based Norgen Biotek Corp. Here is an excerpt and link to the article ‘How Brock is helping a local company produce COVID-19 test kits’ written by Michelle Pressé.
A local company is making an international impact in combating the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to support from Brock University.
Norgen Biotek, a microbiology firm founded by retired Brock Professor of Biological Sciences Yousef Haj-Admad, has long produced collection, purification and preservation devices for samples of all types, such as saliva, soil, urine and DNA.
Now, the Thorold-based business is manufacturing COVID-19 testing kits as quickly as possible.
“Our production has been expanded so much that we don’t have anything sitting on our shelves,” said Haj-Ahmad. “We ship everything immediately. People want it yesterday.”
Read fully story in The Brock Press
PHOTO CREDIT: The Brock Press
PHOTO CAPTION: (Norgen Biotek Corp. is producing COVID-19 detection kits with help from Brock University’s Machine Shop. Pictured here are President and Chief Executive Officer Yousef Haj-Ahmad (BSc ’80, MSc ’82), right, and his daughter, Executive Assistant Mary Haj-Ahmad (BA ’19), left.)
