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Nov 30, 20232 min read
Genpax named 2023 winners of the IET Excellence and Innovation Award for Health Technology
Genpax, a life science startup focused on transforming healthcare in detecting, tracing, and mitigating the spread of bacterial...
Sep 7, 20235 min read
Genpax Estimates Significant Cost Savings, Health Benefits From WGS Infection Surveillance
NEW YORK – Bioinformatics company Genpax estimates that healthcare systems can save considerable money while preventing infection...
Sep 7, 20232 min read
Economic and health impact modelling of a whole genome sequencing-led intervention strategy for bacterial healthcare-associated infections for England and for the USA
Download the full paper below: Abstract Bacterial healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a substantial source of global morbidity...
Aug 24, 20232 min read
Whole Genome Sequencing Can Transform the Management of Healthcare-Associated Infections
A recent economic modelling paper by Genpax, published in Microbial Genomics, concludes that in England, the National Health Service...
Jun 6, 20231 min read
Genpax Poster: A novel genome comparison tool for same-patient samples of E. coli ST131
Presented by Rebecca Ji Bengtsson at ASM Microbe in Houston, Texas 2023 Download the high-resolution pdf below: Supplementary Information
Jun 6, 20231 min read
Genpax Poster: Large-scale hospital outbreak analysis of Klebsiella pneumoniae
Presented by Ramiro Morales-Hojas at ASM Microbe in Houston, Texas 2023 Download high-resolution pdf below: Supplementary Information
May 10, 20231 min read
Genpax Poster: Putting numbers on the economics of WGS
Presented by John Fox at ASM Microbe in Houston, Texas 2024 Bacterial HAIs are a substantial source of global morbidity and mortality,...
May 10, 20231 min read
Genpax Poster: Calling zero - A new foundation for diagnostic bacterial genomics
Presented by James Littlefair at ECCMID in Copenhagen, 2023 Download high-resolution pdf below: At ECCMID 2023 in Copenhagen, we...
Mar 23, 20231 min read
Reproducible, Reproducible, Reproducible
The same features of the Genpax analysis that mean that all strains of a species can be compared in one location with a common analysis...
Mar 1, 20232 min read
Scaling new bioinformatic heights
Genpax analysis was created for the real-world problem from the bottom-up with scalability as an essential requirement. Scalability is a...
Feb 16, 20233 min read
A resolution is coming
When strains are evolving at 1 to 10 nucleotides per year per genome, it is important to address as much of the genome sequence...
Jun 28, 20222 min read
Genpax Poster: A Novel Multi-Scale Outbreak Detection and Strain Identification Capability for Genome Sequence-Based Infection Control: An MRSA Example
Download high-resolution pdf below: A Novel Multi-Scale Outbreak Detection and Strain Identification Capability for Genome Sequence-Based...
Jun 1, 20223 min read
Is AMR really a product of misuse and abuse by doctors?
It is repeatedly stated that we face a global challenge of antimicrobial resistance and catastrophic health and economic impacts, and...
May 3, 20222 min read
Are we winning or losing the fight against TB?
At one level, the numbers look good, but if you look again, maybe not. Once upon a time, TB started out as something else, probably some...
Apr 4, 20223 min read
Genomics and knowing the enemy.
As Sun Tzu famously said: ‘know your enemy’, or more correctly: ‘If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of...
Feb 1, 20223 min read
A hidden cost of COVID?
Life is full of initially hidden and unintended impacts and consequences; for something as huge and pervasive as COVID, no doubt they...
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