“Cell isolation technologies are becoming more and more important. Everyone is looking for easy, simple, low cost, and this promises to take care of all three. As far as early-stage technologies go, this is as promising as I’ve ever seen” -Bill Hyun (Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Cytometry at the University of California, San Francisco)
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There have been two recent votes of confidence for Ann Arbor-based Akadeum Life Sciences Inc., a 2014 spinoff from the University of Michigan.
In October, it finished raising a seed round of $1 million, which will fund product development and beef up sales and marketing.
Normally that would be the big news.
But that was overshadowed by a late September announcement that co-founder John Younger would quit his day job to devote all his time and efforts to Akadeum.
The company has a very specific niche in the lab testing world; it uses what it calls buoyancy activated cell sorting, trademarked as BAGS, to make it easier, cheaper and faster to prepare tissue, water or food samples for testing
Younger was a well-funded researcher at UM whose announcement took many by surprise. He said he even got a call from Science magazine asking if it was true.
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