Osler Diagnostics Limited

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), is a healthcare emergency. It is estimated to cause 12,000 deaths in the UK and 700,000 globally, and is forecast by the WHO to cause 10 million annual deaths globally by 2050, with the same economic impact as the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. Whereas antibiotics must be prescribed to treats serious infections, the gro...

Acute myocardial infarctions (AMI/heart attacks) are one of the most common causes of death throughout the developed world. Each year ~720,000 UK citizens attend an emergency department (ED) with acute chest pain (ACP), representing ~6% of ED visits. Whilst the majority will not be suffering an AMI, due to the life-threatening nature of these symptoms, al...

Sepsis, a dysregulated immune response to infection leading to organ failure, is the leading cause of preventable death in the UK. Annually there are ~250,000 sepsis cases resulting in 46,000 deaths at a cost of ~£1.5Bn to the NHS and ~£11Bn to the UK economy. Early detection and treatment of sepsis significantly improves patient outcomes, with \>50% redu...

"We are developing the next generation of healthcare diagnostics. Our portable diagnostic device could be deployed in the hospital emergency department, ambulance, or doctor's office and be used to diagnose diseases in under 10 minutes, cheaply, accurately, and from a pinprick of blood; moreover, it could diagnose an ever-increasing range of diseases, and...

We are developing a point of care (POC) diagnostic device that can perform most of the tests a conventional laboratory does, but in a hand held device that can sit on a GPs desk. Not only small, the device will also be cheap, accurate, and comprehensive (as it can test for a huge range of conditions). With such a device, doctors could diagnose patients li...