SIRS-Lab and Analytik Jena cooperate on Sepsis Diagnostics

17-Jun-2010 - Germany

SIRS-Lab GmbH and Analytik Jena AG will be strengthened by working together in the field of molecular sepsis diagnostics. As part of this cooperation, Analytik Jena subsidiary AJ Innuscreen GmbH will provide the partner with a platform for automated isolation of nucleic acids with the associated reagent system worth almost half a million euro.

"Analytik Jena provides us with special reagents and instruments, tailored to our developments, for the fully automated extraction of DNA in whole blood samples. The clinical studies currently underway to validate the test should create the conditions to start marketing our sepsis diagnostics very soon", explained Barbara Staehelin, CEO of SIRS-Lab GmbH.

"In the field of sepsis diagnosis, speed plays a vital role in identifying infections and detecting pathogens. Analytik Jena's cooperation with SIRS-Lab offers great potential for the challenging area of diagnostics", commented Klaus Berka, CEO of Analytik Jena AG.

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