IMDx Chief Science Officer Ekkehard Schuetz Publishes 200th Research Paper

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Insight Molecular Diagnostics Inc., (Nasdaq: IMDX), (iMDx), today announced that its Chief Science Officer, Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Schuetz. M.D., Ph.D., has published his 200th scientific article. Dr. Schuetz and Dr. Julia Beck are credited as co-inventors of the dd-cfDNA testing technology that underpins iMDx's entire GraftAssure family of assays. This technology was acquired by iMDx (formerly known as Oncocyte Corporation) in 2021 through the acquisition of Chronix Biomedical, Inc., of which Dr. Schuetz was CEO. Dr. Schuetz has been deeply rooted in the academic and scientific communities for 35 years. With an H-index of 58, a metric that measures both the productivity and the citation impact of a researcher's publications, Dr. Schuetz is ranked in the top 2.5% of all listed 2.6 million researchers worldwide (according to the AD Scientific Index) and in the top 2% of researchers in the field of laboratory diagnostics, which encompasses the fields of medical biochemistry, medical biology, chemical pathology, and clinical chemistry. His work has been cited more than 11,000 times according to Google Scholar. "It's been an absolute pleasure watching Ekke work. His scientific integrity and curiosity shine throughout his publications. I join everyone at iMDx in congratulating Dr. Schuetz on this monumental achievement," iMDx CEO Josh Riggs said. "Dr. Schuetz is a well-known scientific leader and key member of the management team at iMDx. He also is one of the original inventors of the underlying science in our flagship technology that is in GraftAssure. His presence as Chief Science Officer is meaningfully validating for the company — the scientist who built our core technology is still running it, and we benefit from this scientific continuity. The GraftAssure technology and the data support behind it are all credited to Dr. Schuetz's life's work." Dr. Schuetz commented, "For over three decades I have been actively publishing in the field of laboratory medicine and molecular diagnostics; and during the past 15 years, generating the clinical evidence base rationalizing the preferred use of dd-cfDNA technology. Studies we conducted at iMDx and before with my academic partners, for example, helped to establish the correlation between microvascular and vascular inflammation and elevated dd-cfDNA in blood plasma."

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