NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Personalis this week said that the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy will use Personalis' ImmunoID Next cancer immunogenomics platform to investigate biomarkers of response to immunotherapies in clinical trial participants. The trials include melanoma, pancreatic, and all-comer solid tumor patients treated with checkpoint inhibitors, either as monotherapy or in combination with other cancer therapies. Earlier this week, Personalis said it signed a research agreement with FLX Bio to use ImmunoID Next to evaluate therapy-related changes in tumors of advanced cancer patients treated with FLX Bio's FLX475 drug.
Todos Medical said this week that it has received approval from the Israeli Ministry of Health to market and sell its TM-B1 and TM-B2 breast cancer screening tests in Israel.
The TM-B1 breast cancer screen is used to detect malignancy, while the TM-B2 breast cancer screen is used to distinguish between benign and malignant tumors in women with probably benign (BI-RADS 3) or suspicious (BI-RADS 4) biopsies. The firm developed the cancer screening tests using its Total Biochemical Infrared Analysis technology, which leverages Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to analyze test results.
Todos Medical recently inked a distribution agreement for its cancer screens with Care GB in Israel. The agreement, added to the Israeli Ministry of Health approval, has enabled the firm to commercialize its products, and begin sales activities in Austria, Romania, and Israel, the company said.
Invivoscribe said this week that it has acquired additional contiguous space for its accredited Laboratories for Personalized Molecular Medicine — or LabPPMs — in San Diego, Japan, Germany, and China. The company also said it has bolstered its clinical diagnostic test offerings to include morphology, immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry, and multiparameter flow- and next-generation sequencing-based minimal residual disease testing. These new services will further support rapid patient diagnosis, study subject enrollment, and study subject stratifications, the company said. They will be available by the end of this year in San Diego, followed by the laboratories in Japan, Germany, and China.
Thermo Fisher Scientific said this week that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $.19 per common share, payable on July 16 to shareholders of record as of June 14.
Luminex this week announced a cash dividend for the second quarter of $.06 per share, payable on July 11 to stockholders of record as of June 20.
Agilent Technologies this week declared a quarterly dividend of $.16 per share of common stock, payable on July 24 to all shareholders of record as of July 2.
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