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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)…

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Holzgerlingen, Germany, April 01, 2020, 10:00 pm CET – Curetis N.V. (in liquidation) (the “Company”) today announced that the business combination between the Company and OpGen Inc. (“OpGen”) has successfully been completed. The signing of the German transfer agreement implementing the transfer of 100% of the shares in Curetis GmbH to…

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OpGen, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPGN, “OpGen”), a precision medicine company harnessing the power of molecular diagnostics and informatics to help combat infectious disease, announced today that, following its Special Meeting of Shareholders held March 30, 2020, OpGen shareholders overwhelmingly voted to approve the proposed business combination with Curetis…

Holzgerlingen, Germany, March 16, 2020, 08:00 am CET – Curetis N.V. (the “Company” and together with its subsidiaries “Curetis”), a developer of next-level molecular diagnostic solutions, today announced that it starts offering a CE-IVD certified real-time PCR test kit for SARS-CoV2 (also known as 2019-nCov), the causal pathogen of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19). The…

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Holzgerlingen, Germany, and San Diego, CA, USA, March 10, 2020, 14:15 pm CET – Curetis N.V. (the “Company” and together with its subsidiaries “Curetis”), a developer of next-level molecular diagnostic solutions, today reported the results of its Extraordinary General Meeting (the “EGM”) held in Schiphol today, March 10, 2020. Shareholders adopt all…

03 Mar 2020 – MedTech Insights – The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is considering a national coverage determination for a blood-based biomarker screening test for colorectal cancer after receiving a request for a national coverage determination from Epigenomics for its Epi proColon assay. The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on…