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Gurus, why should you have your engineers and researchers out in the field? How can they get a good product-market fit? What is the NOT INVENTED HERE factor and why should you avoid it? Dr. Carlson discusses this and more. Listen in as he provides further evidence that perfect should not be the enemy of…

Biocartis Group has released of SeptiCyte RAPID on Idylla as a CE-marked IVD test. SeptiCyte RAPID is a host-response test that distinguishes sepsis from non-infectious systemic inflammation in patients suspected of sepsis and provides actionable results in about one hour.

Executive Summary Belgian developer of cancer diagnostics is building an infectious disease portfolio on the back of its new SARS-CoV-2 test and collaborations with Immunexpress and Endpoint Health.

Severe COVID-19 infection can be a form of viral sepsis with occasionally concomitant bacterial infection. Pamela M. Peeke MD, MPH, FACP, FACSM, is joined by Russell Miller, MD, MPH, FCCM, to discuss the definition of sepsis and overlap with case descriptions of patients with severe COVID-19, how experience with viral sepsis can be leveraged to…

Ian Bolland caught up with Dr. Rolland Carlson, CEO of Immunexpress, to talk about a molecular diagnostic, SeptiCyte RAPID, which is used to detect sepsis and offers the potential to triage severe COVID-19 patients in the emergency department. Expand Briefly, tell us more about Immunexpress – how did the idea to start the company come…

Immunexpress and its partner Biocartis plan to introduce a new, rapid test for sepsis in Europe this quarter ahead of a potential US Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for the assay later this year. The companies are positioning the test, called SeptiCyte Rapid, to triage COVID-19 patients who could be at greater risk for…

Dr. Rollie Carlson, CEO of Immunexpress discusses the development and commercialization plans for SeptiCyte® RAPID.  SeptiCyte® RAPID is a test that quantifies the immune response to infection and will provide actionable results in about one hour to guide physicians when making patient management decisions.

Designing and operating clinical trials for diagnosing sepsis can be a challenge, as the gold standard for sepsis detection offers a very low prediction rate due to the nature of how sepsis evolves in patients. FDA gold-standard septic blood cultures predict sepsis only 14% of the time, which makes it a very challenging baseline for…

For co-commercialisation agreement for SeptiCyte RAPID Test for use on Biocartis’ fully automated molecular diagnostics platform Idylla Biocartis Group recently announced the expansion of its partnership with Immunexpress with a co-commercialisation agreement for the SeptiCyte RAPID Test for use on Biocartis’ fully automated molecular diagnostics platform Idylla. The SeptiCyte RAPID Test is a rapid, host-response[1] test…

Biocartis has expanded its current partnership with Seattle-based Immunexpress by launching a co-commercialization agreement for Immunexpress’ SeptiCyte Rapid test on Biocartis’ Idylla platform. As part of the expanded collaboration, Biocartis will lead commercialization in Europe as the exclusive distributor of the SeptiCyte Rapid test, while Immunexpress will lead commercialization of the test in the US. Immunexpress also noted today…