Samsung Medical Center
Singapore's Avatamed Raises $1M in Seed Funding
Avatamed will use the funds to expand into the Asia-Pacific market and set up a lab in Singapore to provide precision cancer drug screening services.
Colorectal Cancer Study Reveals Tumor Mutation, Immune Microenvironment Relationships
Single-cell RNA sequencing uncovered interactions between colorectal cancer alterations and corresponding immune cell and stromal features.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Awards $400K in Funding for Asian Immune Cell Atlas Project
The effort is focused on building an atlas of immune cell types found across a range of Asian population groups as part of the Human Cell Atlas project.
A Samsung University team found that mutation load measured with the Guardant360 liquid biopsy assay predicted response as well as tissue-based TMB.
A Pfizer research group, working with Seoul's Samsung Medical Center, has published a study demonstrating a multiplex method for detecting ALK, ROS1, and RET fusions in a single assay.