Accelerate Diagnostics Inc

Company Profile

accelerate diagnostics, inc. (nasdaq:axdx), is an in vitro diagnostics company focused on developing and commercializing innovative systems for the rapid identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of infectious pathogens. the company's revolutionary id/ast platform utilizes a proprietary process with both genomic and phenotypic detection technologies that significantly decreases time to result while achieving high sensitivity and specificity. in addition to the id/ast development pipeline, the company also owns and licenses its proprietary optichem™ surface coatings technology, which has numerous applications for binding in bio-analytical systems, such as microarrays.