Genetic Analysis Solutions Pre-screener to be considered Question Title * 1. Address Name Company LinkedIn profile (for verification purposes) City/Town State/Province Country Email Address Phone Number OK Question Title * 2. Which of the following best describes the type of company / institution/ organization you work for? Select one. Academic Institution / University University Medical Center Hospital Clinical Diagnostics Lab Contract Research Organization (CRO) Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) Biotechnology Company Pharmaceutical Company Biopharmaceutical Company Government Research Organization Private Research Foundation Non-profit Research Foundation Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 3. Is your medical center doing patient care only or doing some research as well? Select one. Patient care only Research only Both None of the above OK Question Title * 4. What is the size of your company/organization? Approximately how many employees in total does your company/organization have currently? Less than 30 30-50 51-100 101-250 251-500 501-1000 1001-5000 5001-10000 More than 10000 OK Question Title * 5. Which therapeutic and/or research area do you actively work on currently? Advanced therapies (i.e., cell and gene therapy) Cardiology/Heart disease research Central nervous system Endocrinology Gastroenterology Immunology Immuno-oncology Infectious disease Inherited diseases Inflammation Metabolic diseases Microbiome Neurology Oncology/Cancer research Toxicology Vaccines Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 6. Do you by any chance work on any of the following therapeutic area of research? Please select all that apply. Vaccine Biologics (monoclonal antibodies) Small molecule drugs Cell / Gene therapy Biomarker discovery None of the above OK Question Title * 7. What research stage(s) are you primarily responsible for / involved in as related to infectious diseases? Please select all that apply. Discovery Preclinical Studies Process Development Early Clinical Development (Phase I / IIa) Late Clinical Development (Phase IIb / III) Post-marketing Approval / Commercialization (Phase IIIb / IV and later in product lifecycle) Not applicable OK Question Title * 8. How many years of experience do you have related to the Infectious disease research work? Please indicate experience including research work done in doctoral program or post-doctoral program and specify years of post-doc experience Less than 5 years 5-6 years 7-10 years 11-15 years Over 15 years OK Question Title * 9. Which one of the following describes the primary focus of the work you are involved in with infectious disease research? Please select all that apply. Basic research Clinical testing or test kits development Clinical trials Translational research (the process of applying discoveries generated during research in the lab and in preclinical studies to the development of trials and studies in humans) Therapeutic discovery and pre-clinical development Vaccine discovery and pre-clinical development Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 10. What specific infectious disease areas are you currently researching? Please select all that apply. Coronaviruses (excluding SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) Dengue Ebola SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 HIV/AIDs Hepatitis A/B/C Healthcare-Associated Infections (e.g. MRSA) Influenza Malaria Non-HIV STDs SARS (excluding SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) HPV Zika TB / Tuberculosis Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 11. What type(s) of pathogen do you focus on in your infectious disease research? Please select all that apply. Bacteria Virus Fungi Parasite Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 12. What application area(s) in your infectious disease research are you involved in? Antibiotic resistance (antiviral/antifungal) Disease pathogenesis (pathogen lifecycle and transmission biology) Pathogen discovery and detection Drug/ vaccine discovery and development Epidemiological surveillance/environmental monitoring Host genetics/ genomics Host response and immunity Biomarker discovery and validation Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 13. What methodologies do you use for your infectious diseases research? Please select all that apply. Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) / Sanger Sequencing/ fragment analysis Cloning Cell/ tissue Culture Chromatography Digital PCR (dPCR) ELISA Western Blotting Flow Cytometry Genome Editing Mass Spectrometry Microarray Analysis Targeted next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR -- Gel / Fingerprinting / etc.) Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) also known as Real-Time PCR (RT-PCR) Transfection Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 14. Which of the following best describes your primary job role in your current organization / institution? C-Suite or Executive (e.g., CEO, COO, VP, etc.) Graduate Student Laboratory Technician Principal Investigator Post-Doctoral Fellow Procurement/ Purchasing Agent/ Finance Production/ Manufacturing Manager or Director Professor/ Assistant Professor/ Instructor Research Associate/ Assistant Research Scientist/ Staff Scientist/ Bench Scientist Lab Senior Director/ Director Lab Senior Manager/ Manager Research supervisors Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 15. Which best describes your current role as it relates to the decision-making process for technology selection in support of your research? Select one. I am a primary decision maker in technology selection I make recommendations and am an influencer of the technology selection I only make use of the products, and do not have influence over purchase decision or budget I only place orders and do not have influence over purchase decision or budget None of the above OK Question Title * 16. If you mentioned that you are involved in the decision-making process for technology products. What type(s) of products are they? Please select all that apply. Lab instruments Consumables Plasticware/labware Software / Data management & analysis systems or services None of the above Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 17. When we talk about lab products and services (e.g. instrumentation, lab consumables, assays & reagents, etc.) what manufacturers / brands come to your mind immediately? Agilent Applied Biosystems (ABI) / Thermo Fisher Scientific / Thermo Fisher / Invitrogen / Fisher Scientific / Gibco [MUST SELECT] BI – Biological Industries Bio-Rad Bio-Techne – R&D Systems CellGenix Danaher – GE Healthcare Illumina Lonza Merck MilliporeSigma Miltenyi Biotec Promega Qiagen Zymo Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 18. And which ones are/were you using currently /previously/most familiar with? And what specific products does each of these brands/manufacturers offer? Agilent Applied Biosystems (ABI) / Thermo Fisher Scientific / Thermo Fisher / Invitrogen / Fisher Scientific / Gibco [MUST SELECT] BI – Biological Industries Bio-Rad Bio-Techne – R&D Systems CellGenix Danaher – GE Healthcare Illumina Lonza Merck MilliporeSigma Miltenyi Biotec Promega Qiagen Zymo Other (please specify) OK Question Title * 19. Can you please tell me a little bit about one of your recent infectious disease research projects? What do you expect to accomplish? Any challenges do you face? If yes, what are the challenges? OK Question Title * 20. Generally speaking, how much percent has the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic impacted your infectious disease research? 1 - Strong Negative Impact 4- Neutral / No-impact 7 - Strong Positive Impact Clear i We adjusted the number you entered based on the slider’s scale. OK Question Title * 21. Why would you say so? Please provide specific examples to illustrate your opinion. OK DONE