Firm makes world’s first early detection test for cancer

Associate Professor Too Heng-Phon, co-founder of Mirxes, which developed the test kit for early detection of gastric cancer. - The Straits Times/ANN

“We realised what we were doing helped to address unmet needs, which is the use of miRNA in liquid biopsy to help find cancers at an early stage, something which was not heard of at that point,” Prof Too said in an interview with The Straits Times. Prof Too and his team managed to convince them. In 2002, the team demonstrated a proof-of-concept of their miRNA detection technology at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

It was only after knocking on many doors, and many rounds of rejections later, that Mirxes managed to receive some funding from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in 2010.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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