Personal Genome Diagnostics is starting off the year with news of a pair of partnership agreements as it looks to expand its approach to cancer testing.
The Canton-based company entered a strategic partnership with China-based laboratory services company KingMed Diagnostics, which will allow the companies to provide clinical trial needs at testing sites in China and Hong Kong. KingMed Diagnostics has a reach encompassing 37 laboratories covering more than 21,000 hospitals and clinics, according to the companies. Through the agreement, PGDx will provide its product, called elio, which tests more than 500 genes for alterations. The companies will also look to work toward regulatory approvals for the tests that it will allow the test to be used during routine clinical practice, said John Simmons, the Canton-based company’s director of translational science and diagnostics.
“PGDx is a leader in cancer genomics and I believe that by working together, we can accelerate the development of innovative diagnostic technologies in China and bring new hope to cancer patients,” Liang Yaoming, CEO of KingMed Diagnostics, said in a statement.
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