Talis Biomedical Granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for COVID-19 Molecular Point-of-Care Test to Detect SARS-CoV-2

Authorized for use in a variety of healthcare and congregate settings, Talis One™ enables lab-quality results without the wait to detect or rule out COVID-19 in less than 30 minutes

Talis One’s robust dual gene target design optimizes test sensitivity and inclusivity of variants including the highly transmissible Delta variant¹

Company to provide additional details during its Q3 earnings conference call on November 15th

MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Talis Biomedical Corporation (NASDAQ: TLIS) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for its Talis One™ COVID-19 Test System – a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT). The Talis One COVID-19 test runs on an integrated system that includes a compact instrument, self-contained, single-use test cartridges and software for reporting results. Designed for use in a variety of healthcare and congregate settings, the Talis One system enables sample-to-answer molecular testing in less than 30 minutes.

“With the ongoing emergence of variants and prevalence of COVID-19 cases, the need for accurate and rapid high quality testing options remains critical, especially as our society returns to work, school and other congregate settings,” said Kim Popovits, interim chief executive officer of Talis. “With the authorization of the Talis One COVID-19 Test System, we can now put testing in the hands of healthcare providers to help detect or rule out infection with confidence and prevent broader transmission while minimizing disruption to our daily lives.”

In a clinical study, the Talis One COVID-19 Test System demonstrated 100% concordance with the comparator test results, including both the positive and negative percent agreements². All samples were collected and tested in point-of-care settings.

The Talis One COVID-19 Test System targets two genes, ORF1ab and N, to optimize sensitivity and the inclusion of variants. The ORF1ab and N gene were selected for their conserved nature and their unique sequence specific for SARS-CoV-2. Designed for cloud connectivity, the instrument is being further developed to enable easy results sharing and simplified patient data management in the future.

Development of the Talis One COVID-19 Test System was supported by the NIH Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics RADx^SM initiative and has been funded in part with federal funds from National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. 75N92020C00010.

As a participant in the RADx program, the company assessed the impact of ten distinct COVID-19 variants demonstrating high sensitivity of detection³. At the time of testing in June, the emerging Delta variant was not available to be included in the study. Subsequently, the company conducted a separate bioinformatic analysis for the Delta variant as well as testing in vitro transcript samples to support its EUA submission. In testing for all these variants, including Delta, no loss in sensitivity or impact on the Talis One COVID-19 Test System’s performance was detected⁴. Talis is continuing to monitor new COVID variants as they arise.

About the Talis One System
The Talis One system is a compact, sample-to-answer, molecular diagnostic solution that can be rapidly deployed into a variety of healthcare settings in the United States to diagnose infectious diseases at the point-of-care. The Talis One tests integrate robust sample preparation with highly-optimized and rapid isothermal nucleic acid amplification to achieve test performance faster than traditional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests. The Talis One test system is designed for use both in CLIA moderate and high complexity laboratory settings and non-laboratory CLIA-waived settings, such as physicians’ offices, hospital emergency departments, urgent care clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, elder care/assisted living facilities, places of work and education or cancer treatment clinics and dialysis centers.

COVID-19 is the first infectious disease that the Talis One system is designed to detect. Future infectious disease indications may include tests for other respiratory infections, such as influenza, as well as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and other infections impacting women’s health. The Talis One system for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, authorized by the FDA for emergency use, provides intuitive and user-friendly software accessible through the embedded touchscreen for COVID-19 test result interpretation and reporting in less than 30 minutes. For more information on the Talis One COVID-19 Test System, visit talisbio.com.

About Talis Biomedical
Talis is dedicated to transforming diagnostic testing by developing and commercializing innovative products that are designed to enable accurate, low cost, and rapid molecular testing for infectious diseases at the point-of-care. The company is developing the Talis One, a compact, sample-to-answer, cloud-enabled, molecular diagnostic instrument. For more information, visit talisbio.com.

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¹ https://talisbio.com/spring-2021/covid-19-assay-whitepaper Accessed August 2, 2021 and Talis data on file
² https://talisbio.com/ifu/talis-one-covid-19-test
*“The combined data set of diluted specimens with neat clinical specimens (from IFU Table 3) demonstrated a PPA
of 95.7% (95% CI: 85.5%-98.8%) and NPA of 100% (95% CI: 92.4%-100%).”
³ https://talisbio.com/ifu/talis-one-covid-19-test
⁴ https://talisbio.com/ifu/talis-one-covid-19-test