Hey, thanks a lot for your comments and for your encouragement! :)
Have you or anyone you know gone through this process before?
I ask because I'm a programmer (my friend is the cell biologist) and so what I'm familiar with is making a quick MVP to show to a party responsible for doing the purchasing.
To answer your questions: the research is all done and we can make a demo of the diagnostic in a long weekend; our results so far are not on patients, just culture lines; and there's no need to do comparative trials since antibiotic tests in use in hospitals all require culturing which takes far longer than our method.
I haven't gone through the process, but I work at a publishing house specialized in medical literature, and I've learned some things about drug development.
After you file your patent, I recommend you partner with a university hospital to run trials on patients. (As a routine step, the hospital's ethics committee will ask to review your study protocol to check that it complies with the Helsinki Declaration on human experimentation.)
It's very important to test your method on samples taken from patients, though you may start with lab animals divided in groups...
Hey hey,
A friend and I are developing a test for antibacterial resistant infections using fluorescent dyeing that is 10 times faster than existing tests. We want to know what the process is for getting clinical laboratories to adopt our product as a standard test. This information would help us customize our prototype and pitches towards the relevant parties.