Eyeing the Hospital Market for Infectious Disease Diagnostics

Hospital-based diagnostics are a tough sell to VCs, partly because big companies dominate the central lab. The area of infectious disease is even more challenging because low-cost culture methods are difficult to displace and novel high-value biomarker content is rare. MRSA screening may be one area where the right factors are coming together to form an opportunity. In some other cases, the same attributes that make rapid tests appealing outside the hospital could help bring them inside.