Address
Manor Farm Road
Porton, Salisbury
Wiltshire, SP4 0JG
United Kingdom
Contact
Lucy Bock+4401980619920
Lucy.Bock@phe.gov.uk
Website
iFAST – impedance-based Fast AST
A novel phenotypic technology, which takes 2 mins to monitor the tiny electrical changes taking place in sensitive bacteria treated with antibiotics.
Fast, cheap, phenotypic, small technology that fits seamlessly into a diagnostic laboratory workflow to speed up UTI and other AST from 48hrs to 3hrs.
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Microbial diagnostics
- Antimicrobial compound/strategy
- Infection prevention
- Removal antibiotics/bacteria
Microorganisms:
- Bacteria
- Viruses
- Fungi
- Yeasts
- Parasites
Application:
- Human
- Veterinary
- Other
- AgriFood
- Environmental
Development stage:
- Research
- Development
- Validation
- Market entry
- Marketed product
- Government
- Company
- Academia
- Institute
- NGO
Partnering:
- Co-develop
- Joint Venture
- License
- Outsource
- Sell
Funding organisation:
- CARB-X
- FIND
- GARDP
- REPAIR
- OTHER / NA
Infectious disease area:
- UTI
- STI
- BSI
- RTI
- GII
- SSTI
- CNSI
- IAI
- SSI
Geographic origin:
- Eurasia
- North America
- South America
- Africa
- Oceania
Partners with expertise in development of diagnostic platforms for clinical use or interested in incorporating the technology in antibiotic discovery and evaluation programmes
UKHSA is an executive agency of the Department of Health. UKHSA Porton specialises in R&D incl. new antimicrobial therapies, vaccines & diagnostics.
Applications: AST for UTI, MRSA, N. gonorrhoeae; characterisation of bacteriophage infection & host susceptibility; research tool to investigate modes of action, mechanism of resistance etc. As read-out takes 2mins, immediate changes can be seen.
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