Top 10 Step One Finalists
Affinity Biosensors
Ultra-Rapid Phenotypical AST by Microbe Mass Measurement
Ken Babcock
Becton, Dickinson and Company
Antimicrobial Resistance Rapid, Point-of-Need Diagnostic Test Challenge
Richard Anderson
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Breath Volatile Metabolites for the Rapid Identification of Pneumonia Etiology
Sophia Koo
Click Diagnostics, Inc.
Patient-side, Disposable, Molecular PCR Diagnostic Device for STI and Antimicrobial Resistance Detection
Gregory Loney
Duke University
Host Gene Expression to Classify Viral and Bacterial Infection Using Rapid Multiplex PCR
Ephraim Tsalik
First Light Biosciences, Inc.
First Light’s MultiPath Platform
Don Straus
Philips North America
Minicare HNL: Point-of-care Detection of Bacterial Infections to Curb Unnecessary Use of Antibiotics
Joe Frassica
Spectral Labs, Inc.
Rapid AMR Test using Spectral Platforms’ Technology
Ravi Verma
University of Rochester
Transcriptional Profiling to Distinguish Bacterial and Viral Respiratory Infection
Ann Falsey
Yale University
Yale’s One Step, Rapid in vitro Diagnostic System
Ellen Foxman
Other Step One Entries
American University
Step One Challenge
Megan Nelson
Automated Diagnostics
Innovative, Rapid Diagnostic Testing and Characterization of Antibiotic Resistant Bacterial Pathogens
Roy Yeoman, III
Avails Medical
Avails Medical Digital Biosensor Technology
Meike Herget
Bacterioscan
BacterioScan 216Dx Laser Light-Scattering Instrument
Andrew Tomaras
Baylor College of Medicine
Detecting Antimicrobial Resistance using Mass Spectrometric Based Technology
Anthony Haag
Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Flow-Cytometry-based, Point-of-care Assay to Distinguish Bacterial vs. Viral Iinfection
Sergei Gulnik
Beth Israel Deaconess
A Description of the Proposed In Vitro Diagnostic, and the Development Approach, Challenges, and Risks
James Kirby
Biotrack Diagnostics
Antimicrobial Resistance Rapid, Point-of-Need Diagnostic Test Challenge
Gijs Jansen
Boston University
Lateral Flow Test for Presence and Susceptibility of Group B Streptococcus
Irina Smolina
Brigham Young University
Amplification Free Detection of Drug Resistant Bacteria
Aaron Hawkins
California Institute of Technology
Rapid Phenotypic Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing in 30-minutes Directly from Clinical Samples via Single-molecule Quantification
Rustem Ismagilov
Cleveland State University
A Platform for Rapid Diagnosis of Infections and Antibiotics Susceptibility Test
Siu-Tung Yau
Cornell University
TuBe — A Rapid Point-of-Care Technology for Diagnosing Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Rifampicin Resistance in Limited Resource Settings
David Erickson
Cornell University (II)
AR — Rapid IDentification of Antibiotic Resistance
Saurabh Mehta
Day Zero Diagnostics
Sequencing of Bacterial DNA using Rapid, Low-cost Nanopore Sequencing Technology
Jong Lee
EliTechGroup
Development of Rapid Systems for the Detection of Antibiotic Resistance
Nicolaas Vermeulen
Entvantage
A Multiplexed, Point-of-Care Device for Rapid Diagnosis of Acute Bacterial Sinusitis
Oriana Hawkins
Fast Diagnostics
The FAST Diagnostics Approach
Eugene Davidson
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Noninvasive Neurograms for Determining Etiology and Severity of Infectious Illness
Mustafa Ghanem
Firebird Molecular
xNA-targeted Diagnostics
Steven Benner
Fractal Therapeutics, Inc.
A Novel Point-of-care Diagnostic for Nosocomial Infections
Arijit Chakravarty
Fraunhofer CMI
Phenotypic AST—BACFLOWDX
Alexis Sauer-Budge
Fry Laboratories
Antimicrobial Resistance Detection by Next Generation Sequencing
Stephen Fry
GeneCapture
“CAPTURE”– Confirming Active Pathogens Through Unamplified RNA Expression
Paula Koelle
Genefluidics
Rapid, Evidence-based pathogen ID and AST Directly from Patient’s Specimens
Vincent Gau
Guanine
CTX-M Guanine-Amplified Immunoassay for POC
Neil Gordon
Helix Bind
A Point-of-Care Platform for Rapid Identification of Bacterial and Fungal Infections
Alon Singer
Inflammatix
Inflammatix Biomarkers
Timothy Sweeney
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Validation of Lactic Acid and Pyruvate Rapid Testing Devices as an Effective Approach to Decreasing the Rise in Microbial Resistance
Adam Au
Johns Hopkins University
Development of Point-of-need Diagnostics to Distinguish Viral vs. Bacterial Infections to Reduce Emergence of Antibiotic Resistance and Determine Severity of Infection
Robert Bollinger
Johns Hopkins University II
Mobile Diagnostic Platform for Integrated Bacteria Identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Characterization
Tza-Huei Jeff Wang
Kwangmin Son
Analysis of Swimming Kinematics (ASK) for Rapid Pathogen Identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
Kwangmin Son
Kytaro, Inc.
Detection System for Multiple Antibiotic Resistant Pathogens
Angelo Gaitas
Massachusetts General Hospital
Point-of-care Diagnostic System for Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Control
Hakho Lee
Massachusetts General Hospital II
Host Transcription Response to Differentiate Sterile Inflammation from Infection
Abraham Sonny
Royce Menezes
POC Device to Differentiate Bacterial and Viral Infections
Royce Menezes
Nexogen, Inc.
Clinically Significant Concern Addressed and Intended Use of the Proposed Device
Dalibor Hodko
Noblis
Bloom filter based AMR detection – Antimicrobial Resistance Diagnostic
Masooda Omari
Nova Psychiatric Services
Computer-Aided Drug Resistnace Calculator: A Rational and Rapid Point of Care Diagnostic Device
Norbert Nwankwo
One Codex
Programmable Enrichment & Real-Time Selective Sequencing for Rapid Point of Care Diagnostics for Antimicrobial Resistance
Nicholas Greenfield
Ovagene Oncology, Inc.
Ovagene’s in vitro Diagnostic Multiple Drug Resistant (MDR) Device
Bruce Batten
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
Thermo-Optical Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test (TOAST)
Michael Recht
[email protected]
QSM Diagnostics, Inc.
Quantitative Electrochemical Measurement of Bacterial Colonization Levels
Edgar Goluch
Quicksilver Biosystems
Quicksilver Biosystems: smFET Platform for Rapid, Mobile, Multiplexed, Quantitative Pathogen Identification
Derek Brand
Rice University
Universal Microbial Diagnostics
Richard Baraniuk
Roger Sciences, Inc. (RSI)
Rapid Point-of-Care Detector of Drug-Resistant Bacteria and Biofilms to Reduce Inappropriate Antibiotic Use
Samuel Hill
RPS Diagnostics
FebriDx– A Rapid, In-office Test to Help Drive Antibiotic Stewardship to the Outpatient Setting
Robert Sambursky
Rutgers University
MZO Nanostructure-Modified Bulk Acoustic Wave Biosensor for Dynamic and Rapid
Determination of Antimicrobial Efficacy and Resistance
Yicheng Lu
Salus Discovery, LLC
The Self-enclosed “Kit-On-A-Lid-Assay”(KOALA) Cultured Based Drug Susceptibility and Resistance Assay
Scott Berry
Seraph Biosciences, Inc.
Seraph’s Field Portable Ultra-high Sensitive Raman System
Gregory Auner
Stanford University
Rapid Label-Free Pathogen Diagnostic Device
Richard Zare
Sympano, Inc.
Nanotechnology Enabled Point-of-care Diagnostic for Multidrug Resistant Pneumonia and Sepsis
Thomas Barrett
Texas Tech University
Development of an Innovative and Rapid Assay for Antimicrobial Resistance Testing on Blood
Marie Bugarel
University of Akron
Microfluidic-based Determination of Antibiotic Susceptibility by Fluorescence Imaging
Michael C. Konopka
University of California, Davis
QCM-Aptamer Based Point of Care Rapid Detection System+HS7 and Software
David Sierra
University of California, Irvine
UC Irvine’s One Step, Rapid in vitro Diagnostic System
Weian Zhao
University of Connecticut
“Digital” Micro-wells Array Device for Naked-eye based Low-cost, Calibration-free, Rapid Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance
Yu Lei
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Ernst Goodlett Antimicrobial Resistance Rapid Point of Need Diagnostic Solution
Robert Ernst
University of Massachusetts
Optimizing Handheld Sequencing Technology for Rapid Detection of AMR for Clinical Decision Making
Tim Ford
University of South Florida
Thermo-plasmonic Preconcentration of Bacteria from Blood Samples for Rapid Point-of-care Analysis
Anna Pyayt
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Rapid, Point-of-Care Detection of Extended-Spectrum β-lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Directly From Clinical Samples
Cesar Arias
Vanderbilt University
Electrochemical Sensing of Antimicrobial Resistance
David Wright
Viscus Biologics
Amoeba-Resistant to Antibiotics Bacterial Identification Diagnostic
Justin Baker
Washington State University
Bioelectrochemical Detector for Rapid Assessment of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance
Haluk Beyenal
