ABACUS DX afternoon symposium

 Friday, February 24, 2023

 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

 Boulevard B2

SPEAKERS

Prof. David Paterson

David Paterson is a tenured Professor of Medicine at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, both at the National University of Singapore. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland. Professor Paterson directs ADVANCE-ID (ADVANcing Clinical Evidence for Infectious Diseases), a clinical trials network comprising more than 40 hospitals across Asia. This network is jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and a number of Singaporean institutions with an aim to conduct clinically important trials in the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This comprises trials of antibiotics, diagnostics and prevention strategies. 

Dr. Richard Brandon

Richard Brandon is a co-founder and chief scientific office of Immunexpress. His experience in immunology and infectious disease, in both academia and industry, led to the underlying concept of Immunexpress technology. That is, that specific immune responses can be measured to identify patients with sepsis, and bacterial and viral infections. His passion is to develop technologies that improve outcomes for seriously ill patients suspected of sepsis. 

Moderator

Dr. Catalina Carrasco  

Catalina Carrasco is Product Manager at Abacus dx. After finishing her PhD in Pharmacology, she was working in the academic sector for more than 10 years, holding position such as Assistant Professor at the University of Chile, Visiting Academic at The University of Queensland, and Research Fellow at Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery. One year ago, she moved into her role as Product Manager for Abacus dx, who represent T2 Biosystems and Immunexpress in the ANZ market. 



Abacus dx

Abacus dx creates value by connecting innovative global suppliers with Australasian customers.

We are proud to partner with leading pathology suppliers, which offer products in the areas of infectious diseases and rapid molecular diagnostic, such as:

-          T2 Biosystems: rapid diagnostic method that utilises MRI technology for detecting molecular targets for the identification of 5 of the more common sepsis causing bacteria, resistance gene panel and Candida, from EDTA tubes within 3-5 hours from blood collection.

-          SeptiCyte® RAPID: a diagnostic test developed in Australia by Immunexpress. It provides clinicians with actionable results in just one hour, to rule out sepsis and differentiate it from non-infectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), by measuring host mRNA response to systemic infection.

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