GAITHERSBURG, Md., Sept. 08, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OpGen, Inc. (NASDAQ:OPGN) today announced that it will participate in the World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress being held September 8-9 in Washington, D.C.OpGen CEO Evan Jones will lead a presentation titled “Harnessing the power of informatics and genomic analysis to provide complete MDRO solutions” on Thursday, September 8 at 3:05 p.m. ET.

OpGen will also host a roundtable discussion called “Antibiotic resistant bacteria in our Integrated Healthcare Network: are new diagnostic tests needed?” on Friday, September 9 from 1:40 p.m. to 2:20 p.m. ET. The roundtable will feature Bert Lopansri, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Utah; Chief of Infectious Diseases, Intermountain Healthcare; and Medical Director, Urban Central Region Microbiology Lab, Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology.

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OpGen, Inc. is harnessing the power of informatics and genomic analysis to provide complete solutions for patient, hospital and network-wide infection prevention and treatment.

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