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Oct 21, 2016

Medical College of Wisconsin Spinout RPRD Aims to Advance Clinical Pharmacogenomics

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The company plans to use Thermo Fisher Scientific's newly launched PharmacoScan array-based platform for its testing.

May 07, 2015

NIH Grants MCW $1.75M to Study Breast Cancer Tumor Microenvironment

The study will create a new rat model of disease to find genes that could inhibit tumor progression.

Feb 19, 2015

MCW Awarded $8M to Fund Rat Genome Database

The database has received a total of $35 million in funding, and in 2014 more than 180,000 scientists accessed it for their research.

Nov 26, 2014

Q&A: Clinical Microbiology Lab Director Nathan Ledeboer on MDx Trends

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Point-of-care testing, automation, and panelization of nucleic acid amplification testing are the future of the clinical lab ― and will likely change how labs and clinicians relate.

Feb 26, 2014

NHLBI Awards Medical College of Wisconsin $1.5M for Kidney Failure Research

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Medical College of Wisconsin said on Wednesday that it has been awarded a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to investigate genetic variants that may contribute to end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

Feb 12, 2014

Boston Children's, MCW to Assess Broad PGx Testing of Children in New 1,000-Patient Study

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Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital, working with the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute, are planning to preemptively test 1,000 children in several different clinical care areas using a broad PGx genotyping approach

Feb 11, 2014

MCW Lab Lands $8.7M to Create Knockout Rats for Modeling Disease Genetics

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – A team at the Medical College of Wisconsin will use a five-year, $8.7 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to create new genetically modified rat models for studying genetics of human diseases, MCW said today.

Feb 03, 2014

Research Institutes Launch PGx Investigation in Pediatric Population

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Three institutions – Boston Children's Hospital, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Research Institute – have launched a study to assess how genetics can influence pediatric patients' ability to respond to various drugs.

Jul 16, 2013

Nanosphere Expects New Study to Augment Clinical Use of Gram-Positive Blood Culture Test

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Molecular diagnostics firm Nanosphere believes the results of a new multicenter study that assessed the performance of its Verigene Gram-Positive Blood Culture Test could lead to broader clinical adoption, according to a company spokesperson.

May 22, 2013

Following Internal Pilot Program, MCW Launches Clinical Whole-Genome, Exome Testing for External Users

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The Medical College of Wisconsin's Human and Molecular Genetics Center recently started offering clinical whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing tests to external physicians, after piloting diagnostic genome sequencing in house for several years.

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To Control the Spread

An Australian-led team has generated a draft genome assembly of the invasive cane toad in hopes it will help in population control, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.

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The New York Times reports that the US Department of Defense has implemented about half the recommendations made to improve safe handling of dangerous agents.

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In PLOS this week: approach for teasing out archaic introgression in human genomes, immune transcription features in HCV infection, and more.

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