Drs. Lee Harrison and Alex Sundermann Join Next Gen Diagnostics Advisory Team to Advance Hospital-Based Infection Prevention

National leaders in hospital genomic surveillance join in key advisory roles as NGD prepares to deploy real-time sequencing based detection of transmission in hospitals

Next Gen Diagnostics (NGD) today announced that Dr. Lee Harrison, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and Director of the UPMC Center for Genomic Epidemiology, has agreed to chair NGD’s Infection Prevention Advisory Board, and that Dr. Alex Sundermann, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Pitt and a widely recognized expert in genomic outbreak detection, has accepted a role as NGD’s Lead Consultant for Infection Prevention Services.