Rapid Onsite Diagnostics

QE Diagnostics has engineered the world's first rapid and highly accurate onsite diagnostics solution to detect harmful bacteria in aquaculture, yielding near-instant results.

Introducing QE Diagnostics — the pioneer of rapid, onsite diagnostics. Our groundbreaking solution swiftly detects harmful pathogens, setting a new standard for speed and accuracy. Welcome to a new era of improved health and innovation.

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Onsite Testing

Experience real-time, onsite pathogen testing with QE Diagnostics. Our testing empowers you with timely insights for decisive actions and cost savings.

Unrivalled Accuracy

Safeguard your livestock's health with lab-quality, near-instant tests. QE Diagnostics' onsite tests detect pathogens with accuracy often greater than from remote laboratories. Get results delivered where and when you need them: here and now.

Unlock the transformative potential of rapid onsite diagnostics

By mitigating outbreaks, reducing waste and bolstering the health of livestock, QED’s technology empowers fisheries to expand efficiently to meet growing market demand.

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Rapid Results
Near-instant onsite testing results provide your team the tools to take expedited interventions and form fast treatment strategies.
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Enhanced Onsite Infection Control
Bolster infection control protocols by testing for pathogens in-house, enabling you to increase compliance or even exceed regulatory requirements.
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Cost Efficient
Safeguard your stock by promptly identifying outbreaks, curtailing the spread of disease and minimising mortality and waste.
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Real-time Surveillance
Constantly monitor the health and disease-free status of your stock in real time within your facility when using our portable testing technology.
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Environmental Stewardship
Curbing mortality rates through frequent rapid testing reduces waste, aids disease surveillance and decreases the frequency and severity of disease outbreaks.

A Collaborative Approach

QE Diagnostics' groundbreaking technology was developed in collaboration with veterinary professionals, scientists and industry leaders over several years. Our close working relationship with Lancaster University and access to their CL3 laboratories enable us to spearhead the development of innovative applications in the field.

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A Preventable Problem

Each year, millions of fish face culling in processing plants due to pathogen exposure. Early and precise detection arms fisheries and processing plants with the crucial tools to curb this trend, fostering environmentally and financially sustainable operations.

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50% loss

in aquaculture production as a result of infectious diseases

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$6 billion

global losses annually for the aquaculture industry due to disease

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1 in 6 smolts

die at sea before harvest

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The story so far

2015 -2018
Research and development on the pathogen detection system for poultry farms began in 2015
Professor Muhammed Munir and team received funding from the BBSRC and the Philippines government.
The aim of the project was for an onsite technology that could be used by any layman.
It would provide sufficient data to regional and federal laboratories to monitor and control outbreaks.
2019 - 2021
In 2019 a global call went out to virologists and immunologists.
They were asked to divert related research to the study of the newly emergent COVID-19 virus.
Professor Muhammed, working alongside a consortium of scientists and universities, developed technology that ultimately won approval from the MHRA and became the only approved isothermic amplification approach licensed by the BBSRC in the UK for detection of COVID19.
2021 - 2023
Following control of the outbreak, the consortium was dismantled and Professor Muhammed brought his research and technology back to his CL3 laboratory at the University of Lancaster.
Following control of the outbreak, the consortium was dismantled and Professor Muhammed brought his research and technology back to his CL3 laboratory at the University of Lancaster, where it was further improved through the introduction of AI and image processing
A breakthrough in the chemical formulation resulted in the world’s first system that can detect multiple pathogens at a time, in a test that can be conducted by anyone using QED’s proprietary sample kit.
2023 and beyond
The first market approached is aquaculture, which suffers from severe mortality rates and where onsite testing would prove especially beneficial. Other industries will follow.