Advanced, Rapid DNA Diagnostics

My old company, Network Biosystems, has been on tear in getting research dollars to advance its platform in rapid DNA sequencing for diagnostics. This includes a recent $3.8M grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop rapid diagnostics to be used in the treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis infections, the leading cause of preventable blindness and bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD).

The new technique will have the capacity to provide the truest snapshot to date of the actual incidence of this silent but global epidemic, while simultaneously providing the opportunity to treat infections on a case-by-case basis and adapt the treatment if it doesn’t work.

“It’s going to provide an unprecedented opportunity to detect chlaymdial infections in real time and treat them effectively so that we can start to decrease the tremendous global burden of this insidious bacteria..."