Advancing Access to Care Through Innovation
Statement Regarding Sedia's Actions in Relation to the COVID-19 Situation
- 1) Developing rapid and point-of-care diagnostic assays for the SARS-CoV-2 virus suitable for rapid implementation and ease of use on a widespread basis in the U.S. and other countries, as a first line defense against the spread and support of the treatment of persons with COVID-19.
- 2) Ramping up production of our HIV Incidence and Recency Assay products in support of CDC, PEPFAR and the international HIV AIDS relief program where Sedia has taken an industry leadership role in identifying hot spots, locating new outbreaks and monitoring the progress of its partners towards the WHO "95-95-95" goals worldwide.
- 3) Significantly increasing production and R&D capacity with new facilities expected to come online over the next 60 days in Beaverton, Oregon
- 4) Supporting our customer needs with sample collection devices including oral fluid sample collectors which we will share with other companies developing new means of sampling and collecting specimens for novel assays.
- 5) Operating in an "around the clock" mode while practicing social distancing and symptom monitoring to protect our employees since the beginning of the current public health crisis.
Advancing Access to Care Through Innovation
Sedia Biosciences' mission is to advance global access to healthcare by developing innovative disease surveillance and monitoring tools, expanding accessible point-of-care diagnostic testing into both technology-rich and resource-limited settings and providing cost-effective specimen collection devices.
OUR Products & Technologies
HIV Incidence Assays
Enzyme immunoassays designed to distinguish recent HIV infections from long-term ones as a means to measure incidence of new HIV infections in populations. We are also developing assays that will target recent infections which have the highest risk of transmission, which pose the greatest risk to others, to enable aggressive treatment, follow-up and customized therapy.
Rapid Point-of-Care Diagnostic Assays
Rapid cost-effective assays that provide diagnostic results from a variety of specimens, including whole and finger-stick blood, serum, plasma, oral fluid, urine and other clinical specimens. Most of our assays are focused on infectious diseases. However, we are developing rapid assays that identify other disease markers as well.
Specimen Collection Devices
Devices intended to collect, stabilize and transport specimens from the point-of-care to the clinical laboratory. Designed to be cost effective, robust and to provide a high yield of usable analytes, such as DNA, proteins, antibodies, enzymes and other biomarkers. We also market low cost, easier-to-use alternatives to classical dried blood spot cards.
Technology LICENSING & COMMERCIALIZATION
We have a variety of licensing and commercial partnership opportunities. Our technologies are available for licensing to third parties interesting in expanding their technology portfolios, developing improvements to their own technologies, or seeking custom solutions to technological challenges they may encounter. We are also experienced at commercializing third-party technologies for developers who are seeking to turn their prototypes into commercial products.