In Vitro Diagnostics – IVD News

VIENNA, Austria, and GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OpGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPGN, “OpGen”), announced today that its subsidiary Ares Genetics GmbH (Vienna, Austria; “Ares Genetics”) has been nominated for the 40th Austrian Innovation Award (Ref. 1). Ares Genetics has been selected by an expert jury as one of six finalists for its…

GAITHERSBURG, Md., and HOLZGERLINGEN, Germany, Aug. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OpGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPGN, “OpGen”), a precision medicine company harnessing the power of molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics to help combat infectious disease, announced today that its subsidiary Curetis GmbH has obtained the CE mark certification in the European Union for its own SARS-CoV-2 Kit with PULB for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus…

BERLIN and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Epigenomics AG (Frankfurt Prime Standard: ECX, OTCQX: EPGNY; the “Company”) announces that a study published by the NCI-sponsored cancer intervention and surveillance modeling network (CISNET) in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reported that by comparing the incremental cost-effectiveness of CTC, PillCam, mtSDNA (Cologuard)…

VIENNA, Austria, and GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ares Genetics GmbH (Vienna, Austria; “Ares Genetics”), a subsidiary of OpGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPGN, “OpGen”), announced today the publication of a peer-reviewed study that demonstrates the feasibility of a highly accurate and reproducible sample-to-insight workflow for various clinical microbiology assays including the molecular identification…

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As disclosed in OpGen, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: OPGN) (“OpGen” or “the Company”) July 13, 2020 press release, we have commenced marketing and promotion, on a non-exclusive basis, of certain products offered by Menarini Silicon Biosystems (MSB) to infectious disease healthcare providers and researchers. As part of the co-promotion…

BOLOGNA, Italy and HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa. and GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 13, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OpGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPGN), a precision medicine company harnessing the power of molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics to help combat infectious disease, announced today that it has entered into a strategic co-promotion partnership with Menarini Silicon Biosystems (MSB), the pioneer of…

19-JUN-2020 (https://www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com/) The Unyvero HPN panel provides comprehensive diagnostic information to clinicians in less than 5 hours, with only minutes of actual hands-on time. The Unyvero Hospitalized Pneumonia (HPN) panel (OpGen, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD) identifies bacterial coinfections in <5 hours in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia, according to a news release on…

GenomeWeb – NEW YORK – OpGen announced Wednesday the expansion of its strategic collaboration with the New York State Department of Health after the firm hit all of its milestones under the first-year contract. As a result, the collaboration is proceeding into a second-year contract. The collaboration’s goal is to develop a solution to detect,…

GAITHERSBURG, Md. and HOLZGERLINGEN, Germany, April 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OpGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPGN, “OpGen”), a precision medicine company harnessing the power of molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics to help combat infectious disease, announced today the start of an investigator initiated collaboration with Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, to identify bacterial co-infections in patients admitted to the…

VIENNA, Austria and GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OpGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPGN, “OpGen”), a precision medicine company harnessing the power of molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics to help combat infectious disease, announced today that a study on the feasibility and potential of antibiotic susceptibility testing and bacterial pathogen identification using next-generation sequencing (NGS)…