In the past three years, M.S. has undertaken research projects and/or sat on advisory boards for a number of sepsis and infection diagnostic companies including Abbott, Biomerieux, deepUll, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (dstl), Gentian, Roche Diagnostics and Safeguard Biosystems. In the past three years, V.G. has undertaken research projects and/or sat on advisory boards including Biomérieux, Oxford Nanopore, Curetis and Vidya.