The firm will use the proceeds to further a validation study tracking the ability of its cell culture assay to predict patient response to cancer therapies.
The firm is seeking approval of myChoice HRD as a test that can identify ovarian, fallopian, or peritoneal cancer patients deficient in homologous recombination DNA repair.
Research presented at ACMG by Invitae suggests that clinically actionable variants in cancer patients are missed by germline testing that is not done with expanded panels.
Clinical researchers at AACR discussed a wide range of approaches focusing on several different potential use-cases in the detection or assessment of early cancers.
VolitionRx's platform uses the company's Nucleosomics technology for identifying and quantifying nucleosome structural features such as histone modifications.
The device, called the MasSpec Pen, was developed by University of Texas researchers to help more quickly and accurately assess margins during cancer surgery.
In a letter to CMS, AMP made a case for crosswalking existing CPT codes for BRCA1/2 testing to codes that more accurately reflect the work required to analyze these genes.
An Australian research group is developing a diagnostic test that uses an engineered toxin to detect an abnormal sugar in the blood of ovarian cancer patients.
