Respiratory
Gastroenteritis
STD
Meningitis
PathoFinder is a privately owned molecular diagnostics company founded in 2004. The company focuses on the development and commercialization of comprehensive panels, with special emphasis on infectious diseases. PathoFinder's proprietary 2SmartFinder® technology enables the detection and differentiation of up to 24 viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic pathogens in a single assay. PathoFinder is based in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The company’s founder and CEO is Guus Simons, PhD. Before founding PathoFinder, Guus Simons worked at KeyGene (Wageningen, The Netherlands) for eleven years, where he held positions as project manager and business manager and for nine years as project leader at the Netherlands Institute for Dairy Research (NIZO). He performed a post-doc period at the University of Ghent, Belgium after he got his PhD in molecular biology at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Guus Simons has written more than 75 peer reviewed papers and 15 patent applications.