Kalamazoo’s Armune Bioscience opens research lab in Ann Arbor, hires 3

The start-up Armune Bioscience maybe headquartered in Kalamazoo, but the firm’s products will come from Ann Arbor.The 3-month-old firm recently opened a research lab in the Medical Research Institute Building in Ann Arbor. The reason, it was the best and only place for it.”That’s where the talent was,” says Eli Thomssen, president and CEO of Armune Bioscience. “The people we wanted were living there. That’s where the technology was licensed.”The firm is developing a diagnostic test for early detection of lung and prostate cancer using a blood sample. Thomssen points out there are no early-detection test for these diseases, leaving a void his firm hopes to fill. It hopes to eventually make this test available for breast cancer, too. To do that the five-person firm has hired three people for its Ann Arbor lab. It hopes to at least double that number within the next year.Source: Eli Thomssen, president and CEO of Armune BioscienceWriter: Jon Zemke