Catalyst Awardee

Project Description

MICRO-TICK: From Misdiagnosis to Clarity: How TICKPLEX Revolutionizes Tick-Borne Disease Detection

Leona Gilbert, PhD | Te?ted Oy; Kunal Garg, MSc
Competition Sponsor: EIT Health of the European Union
Awardee Year: 2024

The standard of care for people who have been bitten by a tick is testing 1 microbe and 1 disease stage at a time, but ticks can pass multiple pathogens, causing multiple diseases that doctors are not testing for. Patients have testified that getting a proper diagnosis takes 11 doctors, years, and tests. With our solution, TICKPLEX tests 15 different microbes against 2 antibodies at a 90% cost reduction for the patient and 98% sensitivity. 14.5% of the global population has already been infected with Borrelia, and 20 M of these treated cases have chronic Lyme Disease because of testing one microbe at a time. TICKPLEX is clinically validated in 9 countries and has first adopters.

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