Next Gen Diagnostics Showcases Low-Cost, Automated WGS-Based Transmission Detection Service at SHEA Spring

Visit NGD at Booth #14 to learn more about the NGD system, which automates both sample preparation and bioinformatics, as well as generates actionable reports for Infection Prevention teams.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass – Next Gen Diagnostics (NGD) will showcase its new NGD System at SHEA Spring, in Chicago, April 7-10. Attendees can visit Booth #14 to see how NGD’s end-to-end, on-premise service enables hospitals to detect and stop infection transmission in real time.

The NGD System integrates complete robotic sample preparation, sequencing, bioinformatics and detection of the transmission of bacterial infection, all in a low hands-on-time, low cost workflow. Come to the booth to learn about the new NGD200, which performs lysis, extraction, normalization, library construction, pooling, and size selection, delivering up to 48 bacterial sequence-ready libraries with no more skill than looping bacterial samples from petri dish to plate. Overnight sequencing, both long- and short-read, is automatically linked to sophisticated, validated, automated bioinformatics, populating an intuitive user interface overnight. NGD’s EpiAssist platform, operating entirely within the hospital’s firewall, automatically displays the overlap of ward, procedure and caregiver that helps IP teams to identify root cause, delivering actionable reports to Infection Prevention teams to help guide effective intervention.

“We look forward to introducing this system to Infection Prevention leaders at SHEA,” said Paul A. Rhodes, PhD, CEO and Founder of NGD. “Hospitals are under immense pressure to prevent transmission while managing costs. Our system makes sequence-based transmission detection both affordable and practical by eliminating manual bottlenecks and capital expense.”

What Attendees Will See at Booth #14:

• Walkthroughs of the NGD200 system and EpiAssist analytics interface, showing how transmission reports are generated overnight
• Learn about system installation, on-premise integration, and hospital workflows

NGD’s turnkey service includes full installation, training (minimal is needed given the low hands-on-time and low skill requirements of the NGD system), and ongoing technical support.

About NGD Infection Prevention

NGD Infection Prevention provides a fully automated, end-to-end whole-genome sequencing platform and bioinformatics pipeline, enabling hospitals to detect and prevent transmission in real-time. The NGD200 system processes 48 bacterial samples with minimal low-skill hands-on time, while NGD EpiAssist automates bioinformatics as well as root cause determination, delivering actionable reports overnight at the low per-sample cost needed for broad adoption. The company has a laboratory in Cambridge MA, a business office in Boston, and a subsidiary in Israel.