Theralink® Technologies Announces Commencement of Testing on Its First Patients
January 27, 2021 at 02:15 pm
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Theralink® Technologies announced that it has begun the testing of its first patients with the Theralink's Reverse Phase Protein Array (RPPA) technology. Theralink's RPPA testing measures the direct activation state for dozens of drug targets at once potentially providing oncologists with key information about the patient's specific tumor. Theralink's unique assay is the only commercial LDT assay on the market that can measure the activation/phosphorylation state of dozens of drug targets directly from a tumor biopsy. The initial use for the Theralink assay for breast cancer is for patients with: Late Stage (stage III-IV) Triple Negative Breast Cancer; Late Stage (stage III-IV) HER2+ Breast Cancer; Late Stage (stage III-IV) ER+/HER2- Breast Cancer; Metastatic Breast Cancer and Inflammatory Breast Cancer. Theralink is now accepting patients' breast cancer tumor biopsies from all physicians across the US except those physicians located in New York and California, which will be accepted upon Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification from those two states. Theralink's patented RPPA testing is designed to provide new protein and phosphoprotein biomarkers through the direct and quantitative measurement of the expression levels of a protein drug target and pathways surrounding it. This testing gives physicians data-driven support to help them make decisions and help them enable new predictive protein biomarker-based therapy selection. Theralink can measure the activation state of key drug targets and signaling pathways within a microscopic quantity of tumor sample.
Theralink Technologies, Inc. is a proteomics-based, precision medicine company. The Company's technology, through its patented phosphoprotein and protein biomarker platform and lab developed tests (LDTs), targets multiple areas of oncology and drug development. Its LDT, the Theralink Assay for Breast Cancer, is utilized by oncologists across the United States to assist in making the targeted treatment plan for their patients with advanced breast cancer. The Company is also working on a second assay for advanced breast cancer that is planned to be pan-tumor for solid tumors across multiple tumor types, such as ovarian, endometrial, liver, head and neck, colorectal, lung, and prostate, among others. It provides precision oncology data through its Theralink Reverse Phase Protein Array assays to assist the biopharmaceutical industry and clinical oncologists in identifying likely responders and non-responders to both Food and Drug Administration approved and investigational drug treatments.