Infectious Disease Diagnostics Articles & Analysis
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As an expert in virology and microbiology, Creative Diagnostics recently introduced the Microneutralization Assay Service to support research labs in detecting virus-specific neutralizing antibodies from human and animal sera. Measuring antibody titers against specific viruses is indispensable to virology and several assays have been exploited based on similar principles, i.e., serial dilutions ...
As an expert in the antiviral field providing solutions to assist virology and microbiology research, Creative Diagnostics recently introduced Fluorometric Neuraminidase Assay services to the global research community, suitable for functional detection of NI-resistant viruses in mixed virus populations and monitoring the neuraminidase activity of non-viral or bacterial origin. Neuraminidase ...
NanoPin Technologies Inc, a biotechnology company focused on developing advanced diagnostics to improve the lives of millions of individuals affected by infectious diseases worldwide, announced the release of a scientific study conducted by founder Tony Hu, Ph.D. Dr. Hu is a professor and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Biotechnology Innovation at the Tulane University School of Medicine. ...
Alveo Technologies, a leader in developing novel technologies that enable real-time, low-cost, at-home molecular detection of infectious disease, today announced that Fran Soistman has joined the company’s Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Soistman is an accomplished business executive who has decades of experience driving profitable growth for healthcare entities. As a member of ...
As a consulting and experimental service provider specializing in virology and microbiology, Creative Diagnostics recently introduced CC50/IC50 Assay service with a high level of assay sensitivity and accuracy. The CC50 and IC50 will be plotted using a sigmoidal dose-response curve, and the selectivity index (SI) for each compound is estimated by dividing the CC50 with the IC50. Pharmaceutical ...
Visby Medical™, a leading medical diagnostic company, today announced Everett Cunningham has been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors. Cunningham is currently Chief Commercial Officer at Exact Sciences and brings 30 years of commercial experience in pharmaceuticals and molecular diagnostics to the company’s board. “I am thrilled to welcome Everett to the Visby ...
Specific Diagnostics today announced the appointment of Nathan Clark as Strategic Account Director. Nathan was a key member of the GenMark sales leadership team, most recently as a sales manager for GenMark’s Northeast region, overseeing a team of 7 sales professionals and infectious disease specialists responsible for approximately $70M of revenue. Nathan was a critical part of the sales ...
April 25, 2022 at 9:30 AM EDT NEW YORK & LONDON & PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 25, 2022-- Regulatory News: Aptorum Group Limited (Nasdaq: APM, Euronext Paris: APM) (“Aptorum Group” or “Aptorum”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, is pleased to announce that the US Patent and Trademark Office (“US PTO”) has granted the patent regarding ...
Visby Medical™, a leading medical diagnostic company, today announced Terri Bresenham and Scott Mendel have been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors. Bresenham was most recently chief innovation officer at General Electric Corporation and Mendel was chief executive officer of GenMark Diagnostics. Together they bring over 45 cumulative years of experience in the medical ...
Specific Diagnostics today announced the appointment of Scott O’Brien as its Chief Commercial Officer. Mr. O’Brien is an industry veteran with over 20 years in molecular and infectious disease diagnostics, the last 10 at GenMark where he held a range of commercial positions, most recently Senior Vice President Global Marketing and International Sales at GenMark Diagnostics, ...
Specific Diagnostics today announced the appointment of David Barreca as Vice President of US Sales. David was a key member of GenMark’s sales leadership team, most recently a Senior Director managing a team of Account Executives that drove growth of the GenMark infectious disease diagnostics product, contributing the sales growth that led to GenMark’s acquisition by Roche Diagnostics ...
NanoPin Technologies (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) announces the establishment of a strategic partnership with Shanghai Reigncom Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China). NanoPin and Reigncom will work together to commercialize NanoPin’s high-sensitivity and high-specificity infectious disease detection technology on Reigncom's RZ-500 ultra-high performance liquid chromatography tandem ...
Alveo Technologies, today announced it has been awarded a grant to improve upon the performance and usability of its testing platform, and if successful, to advance the development and scale manufacturing of the company’s be.well™ COVID-19 test from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As the first of its kind platform, be.well™ is as accurate as a PCR test with all the ...
NEC OncoImmunity AS (NOI), a subsidiary of NEC Corporation (NEC), and Oslo University Hospital (OUH) are pleased to announce that they have recently been awarded a prestigious grant from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that will enable the rapid design of T-cell diagnostics for emerging or endemic infectious diseases. The project will ...
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, chaired by Senator Lamar Alexander, will hold an important hearing today to examine lessons learned from the current global health crisis to help make sure we are better prepared for the next pandemic. Public health expert and patient advocate, Dr. Julie Gerberding, will join the discussion, alongside former top policy leaders. The ...
Selux Diagnostics, Inc., which is leading a new era in personalized medicine to treat superbug infections and combat antimicrobial resistance, today announced it will host an integrated symposium on aspects that impact antimicrobial resistance, rapid diagnostics and clinical care at this spring's 2020 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Paris, France. ...
Most infections present as a syndrome, with signs and symptoms that are common to many pathogens. Traditional diagnostic methods often rely on guesswork—ordering a targeted test for the most probable cause of illness, waiting hours or even days for results, and repeating the process until a pathogen is positively identified. The syndromic approach, however, empowers healthcare ...
QIAGEN today announced a key allocation from the company"s "one million test" donation program to increase access to HPV screening for cervical cancer prevention among women in low-resource regions of the world. Approximately 26,000 human papillomavirus (HPV) tests will go to the Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Hospital for cervical cancer screening, the company said at the Women Deliver global ...