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“There’s not any other place I’d rather be right now,” Brandon McNaughton said standing at the door of his lab space at the University of Michigan’s Venture Accelerator, which opened officially on Tuesday.

Those aren’t words most would expect to hear from a California native looking to launch his own start up. But McNaughton, the founder of Life Magnetics—an Ann Arbor-based company that aims to provide a faster means for testing whether antibiotics are slowing bacterial growth by measuring the rotation rate of tiny magnetic beads placed in a bacterial solution—says he couldn’t have imagined his company taking off anywhere else.

To read the full, original article click on this link: U-M Welcomes Startups to New Venture Accelerator on Former Pfizer Campus | Xconomy

Author: Jillian Berman