Press Release: Hematogenix Pharma Services : Hematogenix Laboratory Services Launches Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) Evaluation for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Using the Standardized ERIC Method

Hematogenix Laboratory Services® - an industry leader in the field of integrated pathology services for drug development and immuno-oncology testing, launches monitoring of minimal residual disease (MRD) for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL). Achieving MRD-negative complete remission (CR) is a prerequisite for long-term unmaintained disease-free survival. The use of MRD analysis in CLL is becoming increasingly common for assessment of response, identifying the process of tumor depletion and relapse, and it is proposed as a potential surrogate endpoint in clinical trials. Hematogenix has validated a flow cytometry-based MRD test, which is a standardized method that has been established by the European Research Initiative on CLL (ERIC). This test is performed on peripheral blood and bone marrow aspirate samples and has a sensitivity of 10-4 or 0.01%.