About Inflammatix
Inflammatix is a molecular diagnostics company developing rapid tests that read the immune system to resolve major clinical and public health challenges. Our expert bioinformatics and assay development teams are poised to build a host response-based diagnostics pipeline that includes tests for tropical infections, autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection and other conditions. We are initially focused on developing tests for acute bacterial and viral infections, and sepsis based on patent-pending biomarkers exclusively licensed from Stanford University.
Our Approach
Our approach to developing host response-based diagnostic tests has yielded remarkable results to date:
Every test should be built with a physician end-user in mind. Our team is physician-led, ensuring that development starts with the question of whether a test could be clinically actionable, and whether it fits into workflow. Our test for sepsis was built to answer a critical clinical gap: physicians usually guess about whether or not a patient needs antibiotics. Current pathogen-focused diagnostic methods fail to answer this question because they frequently miss infections that haven’t spread to the bloodstream. Thus, we focused on using the immune response to infections to answer to key clinical action items in the evaluation of an acutely ill patient: (1) does the patient need antibiotics, and (2) what level of care is required? These questions are best answered by ‘reading’ the immune response, rather than looking directly for a pathogen as a ‘needle in a haystack’.
Embrace “dirty data” in selecting and analyzing cohorts to study. Acute infections can be remarkably clinically diverse: kids and adults, inpatients and outpatients, in different settings around the world. We wanted to build a test that would work in every environment. We thus embrace this clinical heterogeneity by analyzing multiple cohorts that are diverse in their population, sample types, assays used and other factors. Our robust statistical pipeline allows us to find reproducible signal in the ‘noise’ of multiple datasets. Although this is a hard challenge, our discovery methods ensure that the diagnostics we find are generalizable to new populations.
Validate on multiple, independent and diverse cohorts. Trustworthy tests must demonstrate robust performance in independent, blinded multi-center studies.
Our Stellar Values
EXCELLENCE
We pursue excellence and continuous improvement because patients depend on it.
TEAMWORK
We welcome collaborative disagreement and diversity of thought, and we cooperate to enact the best ideas.
INTEGRITY
We are honest and accountable; we discuss, correct and learn from problems and mistakes.
GROWTH
We recognize the hard work of every individual and team, and we work to grow each person in their role.
COMMUNITY
We will bring enthusiasm, laughter and joy into our workplace, and treat each person with dignity and respect.
Leadership
Board of Directors
Advisors
Investors
Inflammatix investors include the following groups:
Partner with Us!
Inflammatix is establishing partnerships with diagnostic instrument, companion therapeutic and commercial distribution companies across the globe. Contact us at info@inflammatix.com to explore collaboration opportunities.
Awards
Inflammatix is recognized for our accomplishments and promise
2020 MedTech Innovator Top 50 Medtech Startups
2019 FierceMedTech Fierce 15 Company
2019 AACC Disruptive Technology and Audience Choice Awards
2017 ISF Best Clinical Abstract Award