SQI Diagnostics to Present at the 15th Annual Immunogenicity for Biotherapeutics Conference

TORONTO, Oct. 16, 2014 /CNW/ - SQI Diagnostics Inc. (TSX-V: SQD) (OTCQX: SQIDF), a life sciences company that develops and commercializes proprietary technologies and products for advanced microarray diagnostics, today announced that it will present at the Immunogenicity for Biotherapeutics Conference on Tuesday, October 21, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dr. Jaymie R. Sawyer, SQI Diagnostics' Vice President of Research and Development, will be presenting data produced during the development of several multiplexed assays for its pharma and biotech customers over the last twelve months.  These custom assays were developed to characterize the pre-clinical and clinical immunogenicity of novel protein therapeutics.  Immunogenicity is an aspect of drug safety important for biologic drugs. 

"We are pleased to be a part of this very prestigious conference," said Andrew Morris, CEO of SQI Diagnostics. "This event brings together the world's leading experts and representatives from all sectors of pharma and biotechnology drug development and gives us the opportunity to share our novel multiplexing applications in drug development testing.  Over the past year, we have made significant progress in our work with our pharma and biotech customers and believe our unique products will prove to be beneficial to our customers who are large, global pharmaceutical companies.

The presentation will be available after October 22 on the corporate website at http://sqidiagnostics.com/resources.

Please visit our website for our most recent shareholder update at http://sqidiagnostics.com/about/investors.  

For more information, please contact:

Investor Relations Contact:
Andrew Morris
Chief Executive Officer
416.674.9500 ext. 229
[email protected]

Sales and Marketing Contact:
Russ Peloquin
Vice President, Global Commercial Operations
913.484.9022
[email protected]

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SOURCE: SQI Diagnostics Inc.

Investor Relations Contact: Andrew Morris, Chief Executive Officer, 416.674.9500 ext. 229, [email protected]; Sales and Marketing Contact: Russ Peloquin, Vice President, Global Commercial Operations, 913.484.9022, [email protected]