Roche And Illumina Sign 15-Year Partnership To Advance NGS Testing

Roche and Illumina have entered a 15-year, non-exclusive partnership to expand access to next-generation sequencing- based testing in cancer care.

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Roche Diagnostics Corp. has signed a 15-year agreement with Illumina Inc. indented to expand global adoption of next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing for cancer care.

The deal, announced 13 January at the annual JP Morgan healthcare conference in San Francisco, grants Roche rights to develop and distribute in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests on Illumina’s NextSeq 550Dx System, as well as on its future portfolio of diagnostic sequencing systems

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