Danaher Announces Two New Centers of Innovation in Diagnostics to Transform Precision Medicine Development
- DH Diagnostics LLC Centers aim to accelerate drug development by speeding and streamlining development and commercialization of companion diagnostics.
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Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) andCollege of American Pathologists (CAP)-certified laboratories will bring technologies and assays from multipleDanaher subsidiaries together under a single roof.
"Our investments in these centers of innovation uniquely position Danaher as a global connector across the innovation ecosystem, leveraging diagnostic technology to simplify and speed pharma translational research," said
"The pharmaceutical industry needs a new, holistic approach that minimizes time-consuming assay format transfers and contracts across every step, from biomarker validation to clinical trial assays and companion and complementary diagnostics, to global deployment, education, and adoption," said
CDx and CoDx tests enable patients to receive targeted therapies intended to better treat their disease. CDx tests are designed to determine whether a patient produces enough of a particular protein to respond well to a specific drug. CoDx tests highlight broadly which type of therapy may be most helpful to a patient. For patients undergoing cancer treatment, this diagnostic process can make a significant difference in prognosis.
Today, the development process for CDx and CoDx from discovery to FDA approval can be lengthy, requiring an average of 15 hand-offs as studies move from research-grade to clinical. Danaher's centers of innovation will seek to drive efficiencies within this ecosystem by minimizing hand-offs and bringing multi-modal capabilities under one roof. Danaher's installed base of instruments in more than 30,000 hospitals in 120 countries offers the potential to further facilitate faster commercialization of personalized treatment for patients.
Danaher's first CLIA CAP* lab, scheduled to open in July in
In parallel, Danaher's additional center of innovation, located in
*CAP CLIA certifications pending
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