U Pitt Team to Use Wafergen’s Whole-Genome RT-PCR Platform for Biomarker Studies | GenomeWeb

U Pitt Team to Use Wafergen’s Whole-Genome RT-PCR Platform for Biomarker Studies

Nov 13, 2007

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — The University of Pittsburgh Medical School will serve as the alpha test site for Wafergen Biosystem’s real-time PCR system, Wafergen said today.

Through a research collaboration with a team led by Department of Medicine Chairman Steven Shapiro, the school will use the WaferGen SmartChip Real-Time PCR System in its efforts to identify biomarkers that are therapeutically useful for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and for lung cancer.

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