Strategic Approaches to Developing and Commercializing Companion Diagnostics

April 22, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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Add to Calendar 4/22/2020 12:00:00 PM 4/22/2020 1:00:00 PM Strategic Approaches to Developing and Commercializing Companion Diagnostics The COVID-19 pandemic has proven the importance of diagnostic tests in overcoming healthcare crises and saving lives; but it has required rapid scale up and deployment of point of care and lab based tests hopefully with lessons learned for the future. Join us to learn more about the journey of developing a companion diagnostic from discovery through commercialization.

Precision medicine is an emerging method that factors in an individual’s molecular profile, environment, and lifestyle in order to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases more effectively. It’s about considering individual differences in the course of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Patients can be classified into subgroups based on how susceptible they are to certain diseases, how those diseases will develop, or how they’ll respond to particular treatments. This information can then be used to predict what the most effective course of action will be. Companion Diagnostics are tools employed to identify those patients who are most likely to benefit from a particular therapeutic product, highlight those at increased risk for serious side effects, and monitor treatment response.

But what about those tasked with bringing precision medicine tests and treatments to the market? What are they doing, what challenges do they face, and how are they working with stakeholders within the wider healthcare ecosystem? We’ll follow the journey of developing a companion diagnostic from discovery through commercialization and answer those questions in this informative forum. Please come prepared with your questions.

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Executive Director - Head of Biomarkers and Companion Dx, H3 Biomedicine
Benoit Destenaves has 20 years of experience in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry specializing in the analysis of molecular biomarkers. Benoit started his career in 1999 at the French biotech Genset working as a genomics data analyst. He then worked for Serono/Merck Serono in France then in Switzerland, where he held positions of increasing responsibility linked to precision medicine in oncology, endocrinology and fertility. In 2013, He joined AstraZeneca in the UK to lead the molecular diagnostics labs and Pharmacogenomics group within the Precision Medicine and Genomics Function where he developed the group’s focus on novel approaches (ctDNA, NGS) for companion diagnostics and later on lead strategic diagnostic and precision medicine projects. In October 2019, he joined H3 Biomedicine, an oncology focused precision medicine company, to head clinical translational efforts and diagnostic developments.