Freenome Impact Advisory Board

Freenome has announced the creation of what it calls its Impact Advisory Board, a group tasked with helping the company optimize strategies, including those that will guide its first commercial launch of a blood-based, artificial intelligence-derived genomic test for the early detection of colorectal cancer.

The new board includes NDA Partners' Alberto Gutierrez, a former 25-year veteran of the US Food and Drug Administration, who will be tasked with guiding regulatory strategy. Joining Gutierrez are two experts on payor strategy: Louis Jacques, chief clinical officer of ADVI Health and former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Coverage and Analysis Group; and Sherie Smalley, senior medical director of medical policy at UPMC Health Plan.

It also includes clinical development advisors with expertise in gastroenterology, including Douglas Robertson from the US Multi-Society Task Force of Colorectal Cancer.