SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Innovation Park at Notre Dame today announced the addition of F Cubed LLC to its client roster.

The company, founded in 2008, is commercializing groundbreaking technology licensed from the University of Notre Dame that allows for the rapid and direct detection of DNA and other molecules in liquids. The technology, developed by Hsueh-Chia Chang, Bayer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Notre Dame, is expected, among other applications, to be used to identify contaminated drinking water and infectious pathogens in human blood and fluid samples.

F Cubed is moving this month into laboratory space in Innovation Park, where employees will work on a prototype of a handheld instrument that provides direct, point-of-care measurement for these types of samples.

“Identification of DNA for medical diagnostics, environmental testing and homeland security uses are currently limited to a specific process,” said Les Ivie, president of F Cubed. “Currently, a sample is collected in a doctor’s office or from a lake or river and then transferred to a laboratory where more testing is required. The whole process often takes more than 24 hours. The F Cubed platform is able to complete the entire process from sample to measurement in as little as 15 minutes in any location, resulting in speedier and more cost-efficient diagnoses, which ultimately leads to faster treatment.”

Chang, who is also the company’s chief scientific advisor, is a member of Notre Dame’s Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics initiative and the director of Notre Dame’s Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics. Advanced Diagnostics and Therapeutics is an interdisciplinary effort to create diagnostic and therapeutic systems that address some of society’s most pressing health and environmental needs. Nearly 40 Notre Dame faculty and staff are involved in the initiative, which is organized into eight distinct research programs.

“Many of the key scientists who discovered our core technology continue to research and teach at Notre Dame. To leverage the technology and our relationships with the inventors, we wanted to find a home close to campus to refine our product,” said Ivie. “We are fortunate to have found the perfect laboratory space and a great partner in Innovation Park. Over the next few weeks, our new employees and instrumentation will move in, making the lab the new nerve center for the company.”

“We are excited that Innovation Park can offer F Cubed exactly what they need – first class lab space for the commercialization of their product, services to help them optimize their path to market and unparalleled proximity to University researchers,” said David Brenner, president and chief executive officer of Innovation Park at Notre Dame. “We look forward to working closely with the company in the coming months.”

F Cubed also has offices in Hawthorn Woods, Ill. For more information, please visit www.fcubed.biz.

For a complete list of Innovation Park client companies, visit https://www.innovationparknd.com/clients-and-services/.

About Innovation Park at Notre Dame

Innovation Park at Notre Dame helps transform innovations into viable marketplace ventures. Located adjacent to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., Innovation Park provides client companies with first-class space, resources and services to help them identify and meet key commercialization milestones. Innovation Park is designed to serve early-stage businesses in varying stages of development, including ventures with expected commercial applications from Notre Dame research areas as well as ventures that can benefit from access to expertise and resources available through the park.

The park’s first 55,000-square-foot facility includes private, build-to-suit office suites and laboratory space, incubation space in the “Greenhouse” area, high-technology collaborative areas and fully-equipped conference rooms. Innovation Park is a 501©(3) organization wholly owned by Notre Dame. For more information, visit www.innovationparknd.com.