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Pittsburgh PGx Effort Aims to Prove Utility in Face of Reignited Regulatory Debates

Feb 14, 2020
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Molika Ashford
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NEW YORK – As part of an academic-industry partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific, investigators and clinicians at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are currently pushing forward with an effort to definitively demonstrate both utility and health economic value for preemptive pharmacogenomic testing — an area of genomics that has been greeted with much enthusiasm over the years, but which has also faced significant hurdles.

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