After raising over $30 million, and securing key channel access, Predictive Biosciences (developer of an LDT for bladder cancer) has closed operations because it couldn’t afford the level of validation required by a payer. From the article: “Predictive...
This is an interesting example. – Drugs (dabrafenib and trametinib for advanced melanoma) commercialized by GSK – Test (for BRAF mutations) developed and manufactured by bioMerieux Link to article
Interesting point regarding alternative to gene patenting for diagnostics: assay patenting instead. “In the drug space, people have very clearly figured out that the most airtight patents are around the molecules themselves,” says SV Bio’s Stephan. “Even if that...
Interesting survey (sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim) of pulmonologists and pathologists regarding barriers to adoption of biomarker testing of lung cancer patients. Key finding: “Both pulmonologists and pathologists said the biggest challenges with biomarker...
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