Pillar Biosciences Receives Premarket Approval from FDA for its oncoReveal™ Dx Lung and Colon Cancer Assay
NATICK, Mass. & SHANGHAI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pillar Biosciences, an innovative next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) company, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Premarket Approval (PMA) to its oncoReveal™ Dx Lung and Colon Cancer Assay, an NGS tissue-based companion diagnostic test for the qualitative detection of somatic mutations in DNA derived from […]
Pillar Biosciences appoints Dr. Eric Lai to its Board of Directors
NATICK, Mass. & SHANGHAI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pillar Biosciences, an innovative next-generation sequencing (NGS) solutions in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) company, today announced the appointment of Eric Lai, Ph.D. to the Board of Directors. Dr. Lai brings more than 20 years of experience in drug and IVD molecular diagnostic development to the team at Pillar Biosciences. Dr. Lai was previously […]
Pillar Biosciences and PierianDx Announce Partnership to Support Precision Cancer Care
ST. LOUIS & NATICK, Mass., Oct 15, 2020 – PierianDx, the leading clinical genomics informatics company, and Pillar Biosciences, a leading next-generation sequencing clinical oncology company, today announced a partnership that enables Pillar Biosciences to sell directly the PierianDx clinical genomic report in combination with its cancer profiling assays. Under the agreement, PierianDx will integrate […]
Pillar Biosciences welcomes new independent board member Robert Forrester
Natick, MA, Oct 1, 2020 — Pillar Biosciences, a next-generation sequencing (NGS) clinical cancer diagnostics company, today announced the addition of a new independent board member, Robert Forrester. Mr. Forrester has over two decades of experience in C-level positions in the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Forrester joins a team of pragmatic experts in diagnostics and oncology […]
Pillar NGS panels go global with increased platform versatility
Pillar Biosciences, an NGS diagnostics company based in Boston, MA, announced today that Pillar® ONCO/Reveal™ NGS panels are now compatible with Illumina®, Ion Torrent™, and MGI™ sequencing platforms. Additionally, Pillar has entered into a co-marketing agreement with MGI that will highlight the compatibility between Pillar’s NGS assays and MGI’s sequencing platform-agnostic sample prep robotics. “With […]
Columbia University Medical Center Receives Conditional Approval by the New York State Department of Health for a Custom Pillar Biosciences NGS Panel
BOSTON, May 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Pillar Biosciences, a clinical cancer diagnostics company based near Boston, MA, announced today that the Columbia Solid Tumor Panel, a next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel, received conditional approval by the New York State Department of Health for clinical use by the Laboratory of Personalized Genomic Medicine at Columbia University Medical […]
Pillar Biosciences Enters Strategic Partnership With China Biotech Services Holdings to Deliver Precision Diagnostics to Markets in Asia
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan. 10, 2019 /PRNEWSWIRE/ – Pillar Biosciences, Inc., a clinical cancer diagnostics company based in Boston, MA and Shanghai, China, is forming a strategic partnership and joint venture with China Biotech Services Holdings, Ltd (CBSH; HKSE:08037). The agreement was signed on January 9th at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. […]
Pillar Biosciences Announces Issuance of China and U.S. Patents Covering SLIMamp™ Technology
NATICK MASSACHUSETTS, Dec. 11, 2017 /PRNEWSWIRE/ – Pillar Biosciences, Inc. a manufacturer of precision next-generation sequencing (NGS) panels and software solutions for robust and cost-effective clinical sequencing, announces that key patents covering its SLIMamp™ technology have been issued in its most important markets China and the United States. The State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of […]
Pillar Biosciences announces ISO 13485:2016 Certification
NATICK MASSACHUSETTS, Nov. 29, 2017 /PRNEWSWIRE/ – Pillar Biosciences, Inc. a manufacturer of precision next-generation sequencing (NGS) panels and software solutions for robust and cost-effective clinical sequencing, announces it has received ISO 13485:2016 certification for design, development, manufacture, and distribution of products for the clinical oncology laboratory within a comprehensive quality management system (QMS). The […]
Pillar Biosciences to Collaborate with Illumina on Next-Generation Sequencing Based In Vitro Diagnostics Development
Illumina and Pillar Biosciences, Inc. today announced an agreement to develop next-generation sequencing (NGS) based in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests. Under the terms of the agreement, Pillar Biosciences will lead the development of a series of diagnostic tests that will be run on the Illumina MiSeq™Dx instrument. Pillar Biosciences has developed Stem Loop Inhibition Mediated […]