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The seven companies that are part of the inaugural cohort at AlphaLab Health, a healthcare and life sciences accelerator that supports startups, held a virtual showcase on June 9 that summarized the work they have accomplished. The event spotlighted companies ranging from Emergence Dental, which specializes in improving dental bone grafting, to Gus Gear, a medical product developer, and sovaSage, which uses digital technology to track sleep apnea.
“What we’re really trying to do is take companies that have proven that they have something and truly accelerate their time to market,” says Megan Shaw with AlphaLab Health, which is a partnership between Innovation Works and Allegheny Health Network.
Dr Tasnim Suliman in the biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) laboratory.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has kept scientists on their toes for more than a year, while it grew stealthier and new variants cropped up.
South Africa obtained its first laboratory isolate of the virus from Covid-19 positive patients at Tygerberg Hospital in April 2020, courtesy of the collaborative efforts of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Stellenbosch University (SU), a news release stated. A virus isolate was taken from an infected patient and grown in the lab under safe and controlled conditions.
Dr Tasnim Suliman, associate lecturer in virology at UWC and a post-doctoral research fellow working under Professor Megan Shaw, an influenza expert – in collaboration with Professor Wolfgang Preiser, SU s head of medical virology – has been growing and studying the virus in the laboratory since then.
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