Affymetrix Expands Microarray Dx Pact With Partners HealthCare

Affymetrix today said it has expanded a translational research alliance with Partners HealthCare and collaborators at Harvard University to include a contract array-manufacturing agreement, which will enable the companies to use custom chips made by Affy for lab-developed diagnostics.

 

Under the terms of the agreement, Affymetrix will create custom microarrays based on "recent discovery data" from Partners researchers. The arrays will be used to produce molecular diagnostics that will be validated and implemented in Partners HealthCare's Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments-certified labs.

 

The team at Partners will begin focusing on array-based tests for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and will explore "many indications in a large number of diseases."

 

Source from GenomeWeb Daily News