SQI Diagnostics Announces First SQiDworks(TM) Platform Shipped for Validation Trials

TORONTO, Jan. 8 /CNW/ - SQI Diagnostics Inc. (TSX-Venture: SQD), a medical systems automation company focused on evolving laboratory-based biomarker testing, today announced that it has shipped the first SQiDworks(TM) platform and accompanying QuantiSpot(TM) microarray consumables to Mount Sinai Hospital, which operates a globally recognized autoimmune reference laboratory in Toronto. Mount Sinai will begin validation trials evaluating the analytic performance of the SQiDworks/QuantiSpot system in diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis using its panel of commonly assayed biomarkers.