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- [Prof. Rohde] So my name is Holger Rohde.

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I'm working as a medical microbiologist at
the University Medical Center in Hamburg.

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As a medical microbiologist, I'm primarily
interested in improving diagnostics

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in the lab, and we have seen a lot of technical
innovation that was mainly addressing in-lab problems

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and trying to optimize workflows within the lab.

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But right now we will see that these technologies
also broaden the spectrum of interest,

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moving us to the question how the speed within the lab
can be translating into speeding up time to result and

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time to optimize therapy of
patients with infectious diseases.

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Looking at the market of ways to speed up
susceptibility testing in the lab gives you an idea

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that there are a lot of different systems ranging from
molecular diagnostics to phenotypic assays and having

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the...or being aware of the importance of
emerging gram-negative, multi-resistant bacteria,

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we see the limitations of molecular assays,
and therefore, we are convinced that the rapid

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phenotypic tests will make a difference.

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And the QuickMIC system, owing to the
speed and short time to result has enabled

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us to completely change our workflows within the
lab and change our way how we communicate results

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to the clinician.

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And we already see that this optimized way of
diagnostics also changes treatment of patients and we

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hope to see that in the future these changes will also
translate into lives being saved by these technologies.

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- [Dr. Malmberg] My name is Christer Malmberg.
I am the chief scientist at Gradientech AB.

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We have identified some fundamental
problems with the current AST technologies.

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They are too slow, they have too high variability,
and there's also poor access to methods where they're

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needed the most, which is closer to the patient.

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So our aim is to introduce the fastest, most
precise, and easy-to-use AST system on the market.

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So the QuickMIC system is a rapid,
phenotypic, antibiotic susceptibility test,

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which means that we measure the susceptibility
to antibiotics and you get a result,

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an MIC value which you can use when you
want to know how to treat your patients.

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- For me, the most exciting thing is that microbiology
will not only be a specialty that is focused

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on the lab, but a specialty that will be
integrated into clinical pathways and pathways

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of patient management. And there, I see the
future that will be significantly supported

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by systems like the QuickMIC system enabling us to
get back to the bedside as a medical microbiologist.