Note 1 - Organization

OpGen, Inc., or the Company, was incorporated in Delaware in 2001. The Company’s headquarters and principal operations are in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The Company operates in one business segment.

The Company is an early-stage company using rapid molecular testing and bioinformatics to assist healthcare providers to combat multi-drug resistant infections, or MDROs, as well as providing products and services for Whole Genome Mapping and analysis of microbial, plant, animal and human genomes for life sciences applications. The Company’s lead MDRO product is its Acuitas® MDRO Gene Test, a CLIA lab-based test that provides a profile of MDRO resistant genes from patients screened for colonization or infection. In addition, the Company has more than ten years of experience mapping microbial and other genomes using its proprietary Whole Genome Mapping technology and providing related products and services to customers.

In July 2015, the Company acquired AdvanDx, Inc. for 681,818 shares of common stock with a value of $2.6 million, based on the closing price of our common stock of $3.79 per share on July 13, 2015 (see Note 11).

The Company’s operations are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. The risks include rapid technology changes, the need to manage growth, the need to retain key personnel, the need to protect intellectual property and the need to raise additional capital financing on terms acceptable to the Company. The Company’s success depends, in part, on its ability to develop and commercialize its novel technology as well as raise additional capital.