molecular profiling

Under a definitive merger agreement, Roche will acquire outstanding shares of Foundation's common stock for $137 per share.

The company said it will seek FDA approval for the assay, an expanded version of FoundationACT, as a CDx for targeted therapies and as a tumor mutation profiling assay.

Precision cancer company Syapse is teaming with Seoul National University Hospital and Asian AWS partner Megazone

Foundation Medicine will provide genomic profiling for the EORTC's Screening Patients for Efficient Clinical Trial Access program.

UCSF researchers will use NantHealth's GPS Cancer molecular analysis test in their molecular profiling study of metastatic breast cancer.

The agency said that its action on MSK IMPACT "advances a policy framework that paves the way for the efficient review and availability of other NGS-based cancer profiling tools."

The Irving, Texas-based company claims that three of Foundation Medicine's cancer molecular profiling tests infringe five of its US patents.

Publishing house Hearst is pushing into precision medicine with a $75 million investment in M2Gen, the informatics subsidiary of Moffitt Cancer Center.

An international research team profiled more than 7,500 tumor genomes, including small-bowel adenocarcinoma, colorectal cancer, and gastric cancer genomes.

At the AACR annual meeting, researchers presented results from the Phase II SUMMIT trial investigating the pan-HER-targeted therapy neratinib.