About Accelerate Diagnostics

About company

Accelerate Diagnostics is a medical device company dedicated to providing solutions to the global challenge of drug-resistant organisms and hospital-acquired infections. It is focused on developing and commercializing innovative instrumentation for the rapid identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing of infectious pathogens. The Company’s revolutionary BACcel platform utilizes a proprietary culture-free process, with both genomic and phenotypic detection technologies, that significantly decreases time to result while achieving high sensitivity and specificity. It was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.