by Rod Raynovich | May 19, 2010 | BIOgraph
Diagnostic Medicine is on the Forefront Genetic tests and the new field of pharmacogenomics is getting marketing support from an unlikely source-Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM’s). Medco (MHS), a $60B revenue PBM ($26B Market Cap)with over 65M members has been...
by Rod Raynovich | May 12, 2010 | BIOgraph
Genotyping on a Fast Track Direct to Consumer Pathway Genomics is offering a “Health Kit” that reports your genetic risk for 70 diseases such as Cancer,Cardiovascular Disease,RA,and Diabetes. Disease carrier status is included as well as potential genetic...
by Rod Raynovich | May 11, 2010 | RAG
Response Genetics(RGDX) announced a deal today for a non-exclusive license to provide GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) with certain rights to proprietary BRAF mutational analysis technology in human tumor samples. The BRAF gene encodes a protein involved in cell signaling and...
by Rod Raynovich | May 10, 2010 | 2009-2017 Life Science Portfolios, BIOgraph
Companion Diagnostics Enable More Targeted Therapy At the 2010 BIO Conference in Chicago with about 15,000 attendees there were ten Breakout Sessions on Biomarkers (BM) encompassing Intellectual Property, commercialization, reimbursement, drug development and...
