Daniel Ndima and Dineo Lioma have created a Covid-19 diagnostic kit that can deliver results in 65 minutes. AnElectricLady
The pair are known in the industry for manufacturing biotech products that they exported all over the world. Their qPCR kit comes at a time when South Africa hit 111,796 confirmed cases on Wednesday night.
Ndima said they believe their kit will assist in alleviating pressure from importing tests from other countries. Lioma said South Africa is currently relying heavily on exports from international companies. “We ultimately want to sell it at a fair market price and our main intention is to assist the government,” said Lioma.
The business partners told Sowetan that they have been friends for over nine years, meeting while they were still in university. Ndima has a MSc in structural biology from the University of Pretoria specialising in protein crystallography and Lioma has a MSc in materials engineering from Wits University and a MPhil in micro and nanotechnology enterprise from Cambridge University.He said because their company is growing they are planning on hiring five or six more people in the coming month. They recently left the innovation hub where they were incubated since their 2018 inception.
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