February is American Heart Month

PathGroup recognizes the efforts of the American Heart Association and healthcare providers in identifying, diagnosing and managing patients at risk for and impacted by heart disease.

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Personal Genome Diagnostics and PathGroup Enter Co-Development Agreement to Accelerate the Availability of Comprehensive Genomic Profiling with TMB

BALTIMORE – (Monday, January 7, 2019) – Personal Genome Diagnostics Inc. (PGDx), a leader in cancer genomics, and PathGroup, a premier provider of anatomic, clinical and molecular laboratory services, announced today that they have entered into a co-development agreement for the PGDx elio™ tissue complete assay.

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Kathryn Knight, MD named CAP Speaker of the House of Delegates

Brentwood, TN – (Monday, November 12, 2018) Dr. Kathryn Knight, Medical Director for Women’s Health Services and Cytopathology for PathGroup Laboratories, was elected Speaker of the House of Delegates at the recent annual meeting of the College of American Pathologists in Chicago, Illinois.

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Patrick “Alan” Lennon, PhD, FACMG, Completes Term as President of the Cancer Genomics Consortium at the CGC Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN

After serving as President-Elect/Scientific Program Chair for the annual meeting held in Denver, CO in 2017, Alan Lennon, PhD, FACMG took the helm as President of the Cancer Genomics Consortium.  The Cancer Genomics Consortium (CGC) is a non-profit organization formed in 2009 by a group of clinical cytogeneticists, molecular geneticists, and molecular pathologists who are interested in applying whole genome and other genetic technologies to cancer diagnosis and cancer research.  During his presidential term, working groups which Lennon fostered back in 2016 to publish evidence-based reviews on assessing whole genome copy number aberrations and copy neutral loss of heterozygosity as best practice in a variety of cancers saw several works accepted for publication. Over 270 cancer geneticists from 7 countries converged on the annual meeting in Nashville, TN, August 5 – 8. The 2018 Annual Meeting was the largest meeting to date and was supported by the largest corporate sponsorship to date. Lennon’s presidential term culminated at the annual meeting, although he serves two more years on the Board of Directors.

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Christopher Coldren PhD Co-Authors AMP Journal of Molecular Diagnostic Article

Brentwood, TN – (Wednesday, March 7, 2018) – PathGroup, a premier provider of anatomic, clinical and molecular pathology laboratory services, is pleased to announce that Christopher Coldren, PhD has co-authored an evidence based guideline published in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (Nov. 2017) entitled “Standards and Guidelines for Validating Next-Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Pipelines.”

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Pranil K. Chandra, DO to Present at 9th Annual Personalized & Precision Medicine Conference

Brentwood, TN – (Thursday, October 12, 2017) – PathGroup, one of the largest private providers of pathology and laboratory services in the Unites States, is pleased to announce that that Dr. Pranil K. Chandra will present at the 9th Annual Personalized and Precision Medicine Conference held October 16 – 17, 2017 in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Chandra currently serves as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Genomic and Clinical Pathology.

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Sandeep Mukherjee, Ph.D., to Present at Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG) Annual Meeting

Brentwood, TN – (Thursday, August 10, 2017) – PathGroup, one of the largest private providers of pathology and laboratory services in the Unites States, is pleased to announce that that Dr. Sandeep Mukherjee will present a poster abstract entitled “Prevalence of Mycoplasma genitalium in a Screening Population” at the Infectious Diseases Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (IDSOG) Annual Meeting held August 10-12, 2017 in Park City, Utah.

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Lennon, Chandra and Olds to Present at Cancer Genomics Consortium 2017 Summer Meeting

Brentwood, TN – (Monday, August 7, 2017) – PathGroup is pleased to announce that Alan Lennon, Ph.D., FACMG, is serving as the current President-Elect for the Cancer Genomics Consortium. He is also serving as the 2017 Scientific Committee Chair for the 2017 Summer Meeting held August 7- 9, 2017 in Denver, Colorado.  Dr. Lennon currently serves as the Senior Scientific Director, Clinical Cytogenetics, FISH and Microarray Services for PathGroup.

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Pranil K. Chandra, DO to Serve on Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) Solid Tumors Practice Committee

Brentwood, TN – (Thursday, August 3, 2017) – PathGroup, one of the largest private providers of pathology and laboratory services in the Unites States, is pleased to announce that that Dr. Pranil K. Chandra has been selected to serve a two-year term on the Solid Tumors Clinical Practice Committee for the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP).

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