Alberta Centre for Advanced Diagnostics
From prototyping to clinical implementation, ACAD leverages Alberta's consolidated healthcare infrastructure to connect early-stage innovators with the facilities, equipment, performance testing centres, and healthcare contacts needed for emerging technologies in the pathogen diagnostics sector. Rapid Infection Diagnostics (RID) Inc., success story of ACAD, leverages advanced mass spectrometry to enable a suite of rapid diagnostic tests that reduce microbiology testing times from days to hours.