美国Allegro Diagnostics   

Allegro Diagnostics是研制分子诊断肺癌治疗领域中的先锋

Allegro Diagnostics was founded in 2006 by Jerome Brody, M.D., and Avrum Spira, M.D., MSc, faculty at the Boston University School of Medicine and thought leaders in the field of pulmonology. The company is currently headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts.

The company’s strong investor base includes Kodiak Venture Partners and Catalyst Health Ventures. Allegro has raised $4.5 million in venture financing, and $2.5 million in competitive R&D grant funding. Allegro’s management team has significant experience in the development and commercialization of diagnostic products.
 

Allegro Diagnostics is a molecular diagnostics company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative genomic tests to support the diagnosis and management of lung cancer. These tests have the potential to enable the early diagnosis, staging and informed treatment of lung cancer and other lung diseases.

The company has developed a molecular testing platform that is based on the discovery of a genomic biomarker for lung cancer. This platform has generated multiple product candidates that analyze specific changes in gene expression in epithelial cells of the airway, which are associated with the development in lung cancer in current or former tobacco smokers.

Allegro’s first product candidate is BronchoGen™, which can be incorporated into standard bronchoscopy procedures to provide additional critical diagnostic information to support more rapid diagnosis and treatment. This approach may provide more accurate, more cost-effective, and less invasive early diagnosis of lung cancer, a $10 billion worldwide market. Allegro holds extensive intellectual property rights to the molecular testing and analysis of the gene expression platform for this product.