Turna Ray
Turna Ray has been covering the personalized medicine and molecular diagnostics industries for GenomeWeb since 2006. She closely tracks the evolving regulatory, reimbursement, and business environment for precision medicine products.

Articles Authored by Turna Ray
Absent Resolution on FDA's LDT Oversight in 2022, Some Payors Began Advancing Their Own Requirements
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After the VALID Act didn't pass, it's uncertain how the FDA will proceed, though some payors aren't waiting for the status quo to change and asking labs to submit additional validation data on cancer tests.

During the third quarter, the company saw 24 percent revenue growth from the year-ago period, but the company lowered its full-year expectations.
The company, infamous and long derided in the genetic testing community for refusing to share BRCA1/2 variants, has decided to change its stance as part of a "strategic transformation."

If the Center for Genomic Interpretation's in silico quality assessment catches on with payors, some labs are sure to push back or propose data sharing as an alternative.
Highmark Asks Labs for Additional Validation Data on Cancer NGS Tests; Will Other Insurers Follow?
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The payor wants to see data beyond what is required through CLIA, and recommends labs use the Center for Genomic Interpretation to gauge how well tests detect and interpret variants.

Cancer Centers Nudge Oncologists Toward DPYD Testing as PGx Supporters Push For Guidelines Change
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Several institutions, swayed by PGx experts and advocates, are setting up DPYD testing to avoid deadly chemo toxicities in patients even though the NCCN and FDA don't back it.

In Sixth Year, Project GENIE Diversifying, Integrating Local Ancestry and Enhancing Clinical Data
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Despite the registry's growth in content and utility, currently more than 80 percent of the clinical and genomic data comes from white patients, which AACR wants to change.

Cancer Genomics Project in Southwestern American Indians Aims to Improve Research, Care Disparities
The NCI-funded project, which was delayed due to the pandemic, is poised to begin, and aims to provide actionable data and build a reference genome for American Indians.
Data presented at the AACR annual meeting suggests that some recurrent breast cancers after DCIS are actually new primary tumors in some high-risk patients.

The company is offering combined germline and somatic cancer testing, and sharing patients' variants identified through that testing in a new research registry.