PierianDx Announces Multi-Year Agreement with Illumina to Support Cancer Research and Diagnostics
January 04, 2019 at 02:00 pm
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PierianDx announced a strategic, non-exclusive, multi-year partnership with Illumina, Inc. to provide a variant interpretation and reporting solution based on PierianDx’s Clinical Genomics Workspace platform and Clinical Genomics Knowledgebase for select Illumina oncology products. Under the agreement, PierianDx and Illumina will offer customers the option of informatics capabilities for Illumina oncology products, including Illumina’s TruSight™ Tumor 170 and TruSight™ Oncology 500, which are currently intended for research use only (RUO). The partnership extends to support Illumina’s future oncology in vitro diagnostic (IVD) offerings. Advancing cancer diagnostics and making targeted therapeutics more accessible to healthcare systems, laboratories, and patients worldwide is a key focus of both parties. Under the agreement Illumina and its affiliates will be responsible for the distribution of the RUO oncology products and packaged solutions. Laboratories that purchase the RUO products from Illumina will have an option to receive from PierianDx standardized reporting, driven by professional guidelines for streamlined case review and sign-out. In addition, laboratories who purchase the bundled RUO oncology product with the PierianDx informatics solution will receive access to PierianDx’s Clinical Genomics Workspace for analysis, interpretation, and reporting of genomic results. Laboratories will also have the opportunity to engage PierianDx for additional services such as genomic interpretation, medical sign-out, and electronic medical record integration.
Illumina, Inc. specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and biological function. The group's products are for genomic research centers, pharmaceutical companies, university institutions, clinical research organizations, and biotechnology companies. Net sales break down by source of income as follows:
- product sales (84.1%): tools and instruments for sequencing, genotyping, genetic expression, etc.;
- sales of services (15.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (52.4%), Americas (3.6%), Europe (25.3%), Asia/Pacific/Middle East/Africa (10.2%) and China/Taiwan/Hong Kong (8.5%).