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Univ. of Chicago researchers license pharmacogenomics test for patients with colorectal cancer to Mayo

ide health professionals on how to dose medications such as irinotecan."

Colorectal cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in the U.S., with more than 145,000 new cases per year in the U.S. It accounts for nearly 60,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone.

The application of this test for patients with colon and rectal cancer, however, may only be the beginning. Irinotecan also is being tested and used for other GI cancers as well as lung and breast carcinoma.

The Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic maintains an active diagnostic test development program. These activities also incorporate discoveries made elsewhere, such as the UGT1A1 patents from the University of Chicago. Mayo Clinic offers these proven diagnostic technologies to more than 5,000 health care institutions around the world through MML.

Mayo acquired an exclusive license to the UGT1A1 technology from the University of Chicago, which includes the right to sub-license the test, and will actively pursue agreements with other academic medical centers, laboratories, diagnostic test companies and pharmaceutical companies to ensure that patients everywhere have access to this important screening test. Mayo recently sub-licensed the rights under the University of Chicago patent to Third Wave Technologies.


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Contact: John Easton
john.easton@uchospitals.edu
773-702-6241
University of Chicago Medical Center
21-Dec-2005


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