Vigilant Diagnostics LLC, founded in 2014, has developed patented thermal contrast technology that increases the sensitivity of Lateral Flow Assays (LFAs) by 10 to 30 times, allowing for faster and more accurate diagnostic results, with fewer false negatives and false positives.
Lateral Flow Assays have been used in clinical settings since the development of the pregnancy test in the 1980s. Today, they’re widely used in labs and clinics, and in veterinary, environmental, and field testing. They’re simple and quick to use and require only a small sample amount.
The company’s patented Thermal Contrast Amplification (TCA) technology was developed at the University of Minnesota -- scroll down for details and timeline. It is designed as a platform that can be used to process a variety of existing Lateral Flow Assays.
The promise of the advanced technology that Vigilant Diagnostics has developed is to greatly reduce the time to accurate diagnosis through increased sensitivity -- which is usually found only in laboratory tests -- and to bring that advantage to point-of-care testing, for a wide variety of applications.
The State of Diagnostics Today
Providers rely on centralized lab facilities to run many common diagnostics. Provider overhead is high, costs are high, workflow is inefficient, care is delayed.
Our Solution
Our patented technology provides high-sensitivity, quantified results in a fraction of the time, for a fraction of the cost. It supercharges existing ubiquitous Lateral Flow Assays (LFAs) to increase sensitivity by 10x while providing quantified results.
Competitive Landscape
We compete with higher-priced, time-consuming central lab diagnostic machines on the high-end, and less-sensitive LFA readers on the low-end.
Our Growth Strategy
As an R&D company in the broad point-of-care diagnostics market, we are continuing to identify strategic areas to apply our patented technology, and we plan to license and support key players in those areas for commercialization.
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