OpGen’s Subsidiary Curetis Meets All Remaining Key Milestones in R&D Collaboration with FIND
ROCKVILLE, Md., April 26, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — OpGen, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPGN, “OpGen” or “the Company”), a precision medicine company harnessing the power of molecular diagnostics and bioinformatics to help combat infectious disease, reported today that its German subsidiary Curetis GmbH has met the remaining key milestones under the initial research and development (“R&D”) collaboration agreement with FIND. Following the delivery of a comprehensive milestone report at the end of first quarter of 2023, FIND confirmed that all requirements have been met successfully. Under the recently announced expansion of the collaboration, the originally planned Next Generation Sequencing (“NGS”) strain analysis will be complemented with isolates from other sub-Saharan African countries. Completion of the deliverables triggered a milestone payment of approximately $0.3 million.