
Affinity Biosensors’ LifeScale platform delivers rapid, high-throughput phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing in under four hours, empowering clinical labs to make timely antibiotic decisions and combat drug-resistant infections.
AFFINITY BIOSENSORS LLC has raised $48.5M in total funding. The most recent round was Series A.
AFFINITY BIOSENSORS LLC is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA.
Affinity Biosensors’ LifeScale platform delivers rapid, high-throughput phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing in under four hours, empowering clinical labs to make timely antibiotic decisions and combat drug-resistant infections.
Clinicians need fast, accurate antibiotic susceptibility test results -- especially for dangerous resistant Gram-negative bacteria in positive blood cultures -- to act quickly on patient treatment.
LifeScale, a rapid AST (antibiotic susceptibility testing) system using population-profiling technology with automated sample inoculation, incubation, reading, and reporting, delivering results in about 4.5 hours.
FDA-cleared (a third clearance is cited), with published accuracy data benchmarked against standard-of-care methods (WalkAway, Phoenix, Vitek) and under 10 minutes of added hands-on technician time.
Affinity Biosensors was co-founded by MIT professor Scott Manalis, known for his microfluidic mass-sensing research, along with CEO Dr. Ken Babcock.
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