ROSTOCK, Germany and COLOGNE, Germany, April 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CENTOGENE (Nasdaq: CNTG), a commercial-stage firm centered on uncommon illnesses that transforms real-world medical and genetic information into actionable info for sufferers, physicians, and pharmaceutical corporations, and the Cologne-based blockchain start-up Ubirch at this time introduced a joint resolution for the profitable struggle in opposition to the results of SARS-CoV-2 ─ the virus inflicting COVID-19 ─ on the economic system and social life in Germany. Sooner or later, SARS-CoV-2 check outcomes might be saved on the blockchain and could be retrieved at any time ─ serving as a digital certificates of immunity to the virus. This might significantly speed up the return to normalcy for our society and the economic system.
The present contact restrictions in Germany can’t be upheld till a Coronavirus vaccine is prepared for market, which has main penalties on the economic system and the flexibility for people to maneuver about freely. As it’s projected that the novel virus will proceed to pose a menace to society for the foreseeable future, techniques must be tailored to incorporate extra stringent controls, elevated testing efforts, the tracing of an infection chains, and the isolation of doubtless contaminated people in addition to danger teams. Within the coming weeks and months, it’s going to doubtless be required for people to exhibit a verified standing of whether or not they’re constructive for SARS-CoV-2, or not. Such necessities are anticipated to use to worldwide flights and dealing in important areas. This might be much more relevant as soon as antibody exams are established, which can function dependable proof of immunity to the virus. The answer focuses on GDPR conformity: In keeping with the best information safety requirements, consumer information is simply saved as hash values on the blockchain and can’t be interpreted with out consumer authorization.
CENTOGENE and Ubirch have joined forces to offer a available and safe resolution that finest accelerates the transition again to our acquainted financial and social coexistence. Outcomes from SARS-CoV-2 exams carried out at CENTOGENE’s laboratories might be instantly sealed just about on the blockchain – just like the best way it’s executed at a notary within the ‘actual world’ ─ utilizing the Ubirch resolution. At any time when a person wants to indicate proof that they aren’t contaminated by the virus ─ e.g., to realize entry to a manufacturing plant, public transportation, or a hospital ─ the offered end result could be verified with the assistance of a 100% real blockchain certificates. This type of distributed safety has already confirmed itself in different industrial environments. The IoT-based process is ideally suited to safe and confirm medical information.
CENTOGENE CIO Volkmar Weckesser said, “We’re satisfied that solely widespread testing of these at the moment contaminated with COVID-19 will deliver us out of the present lockdown. For this function, we have now developed an environment friendly check to display for SARS-CoV-2 with an related portal. Along with Ubirch’s resolution, the check outcomes could be accessed all over the place in a forgery-proof method ─ spearheading a return to normality.”
Ubirch CEO Stephan Noller stated, “We’re working at full pace on this new partnership, as a result of time is of the essence, and quite a bit is at stake. With our joint resolution, will probably be doable for folks to current their corona check outcomes at any time, and thus be capable of transfer round freely once more to a big extent. Now we have developed a central resolution module enabling us to assist swiftly elevate the lockdown restrictions and transfer on to extra focused measures.”
Discussions are already underway with different companions ─ enabling corporations to have the ability to rapidly arrange a Coronavirus monitoring infrastructure by which the outcomes of mass screenings can be utilized to launch folks from quarantine or permit them to take part totally in financial and social life once more.
About Ubirch:
Ubirch is the specialist for blockchain-based know-how within the subject of IoT with places in Cologne, Berlin and Munich. The workforce consists of skilled specialists for cryptography, blockchain and data-driven enterprise fashions. Ubirch primarily addresses prospects from the trade, sensible cities, insurance coverage, IoT start-ups, power provide and logistics segments. Consisting of a particularly light-weight consumer for sensor firmware and the matching cloud backend, Ubirch’s “Blockchain for Issues” product allows information safety at army grade requirements and thus presents new enterprise fashions for the Web of Issues. Revolutionary cryptography and blockchain applied sciences assure the trustworthiness of IoT information. Additional info is accessible at www.ubirch.com
About CENTOGENE
CENTOGENE engages in analysis and analysis round uncommon illnesses reworking real-world medical and genetic information into actionable info for sufferers, physicians, and pharmaceutical corporations. Our objective is to deliver rationality to therapy selections and to speed up the event of latest orphan medicine by utilizing our in depth uncommon illness information, together with epidemiological and medical information and progressive biomarkers. CENTOGENE has developed a worldwide proprietary uncommon illness platform primarily based on our real-world information repository with roughly 2.1 billion weighted information factors from roughly 500,000 sufferers representing over 120 totally different nations as of December 31, 2019, or a median of roughly 600 information factors per affected person.
The Firm’s platform contains epidemiologic, phenotypic and genetic information that displays a worldwide inhabitants, and likewise a biobank of those sufferers’ blood samples. CENTOGENE believes this represents the one platform that comprehensively analyzes multi-level information to enhance the understanding of uncommon hereditary illnesses, which may support within the identification of sufferers and enhance our pharmaceutical companions’ means to deliver orphan medicine to the market. As of December 31, 2019, the Firm collaborated with over 35 pharmaceutical companions for over 40 totally different uncommon illnesses.
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