Compendia Bioscience Announces Collaboration with MDS Pharma Services to Deliver Novel Solution for Oncology Drug D...( ANN ARBOR Mich. April 28 /- Compendia...),Health

ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Compendia Bioscience today announced a strategic collaboration with MDS Pharma Services to deliver OncoPredictor(SM) -- a novel solution for improved cancer drug development. OncoPredictor(SM) combines MDS Pharma Services OncoPanel(TM) with Compendia Bioscience's Oncomine(TM) for a solution that will provide guidance on patient groups most likely to respond to a new cancer therapy.

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MDS Pharma Services OncoPanel(TM) service provides high content screening of up to 240 cancer cell lines to assess the cytotoxicity and chemotherapeutic potential of specific cancer drugs and drug combinations. Compendia's Oncomine(TM), a database of cancer genomic profiles coupled with an analysis web application, provides genomic characterization and comparison of cancer cell lines to 2,000 disease signatures from more than 27,000 reference patients based on molecular, pathological and histological sub-types. Through this collaboration, the OncoPredictor(SM) system will enable the analysis of drug sensitivity and resistance of novel drugs and drug combinations as well as the identification of associations with both disease sub-types and underlying tumor biology.

"Based on our experience working with 15 of the top 20 companies pursuing the development of cancer treatments, we believe this integrated solution could revolutionize cancer genomics for drug development," said Compendia CEO and Co-founder Dan Rhodes, Ph.D. "All of our customers are keenly interested in identifying which patients are mostly likely to respond to their new drugs. OncoPredictor(SM) provides the right experimental scale, in terms of cell line data and reference patient data,
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