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Biodesix Partners with Datavant to Enhance Value of Lung Cancer Databank
Biodesix intends to make its databank and linked data accessible to research and biopharma partners BOULDER, Colorado and SAN FRANCISCO, June 04, 2021 (GLOBE
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[{"type":"text","content":"Biodesix intends to make its databank and linked data accessible to research and biopharma partners\nBOULDER, Colorado and SAN FRANCISCO, June 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Biodesix, a leading lung cancer diagnostic solutions company, announced a strategic partnership with Datavant, the leader in helping healthcare organizations safely connect their data. Datavant provides solutions to help protect, match, and share health data. Through this partnership, Biodesix will anonymize the lung cancer portion of their expansive sample and data biobank using Datavant’s proprietary tokenization process and connect it to multiple real-world data sets while compliantly and securely protecting patient privacy. Given the significant need for robustly curated real-world evidence (RWE) linked to outcomes, claims data, comprehensive standard of care data and biomarkers, Biodesix intends to make its databank and linked data accessible to their research and biopharma partners. Real-world patient level data not only helps physicians improve treatment decisions, it also informs researchers and biopharma companies on key decisions throughout the product development cycle, from early discovery to late stage clinical development, including such uses as meaningful RWE synthetic control arms. The lung cancer-specific portion of Biodesix’s 150,000 sample and data and biobank includes both baseline and longitudinal samples with proteomic and genomic laboratory results. A portion of the database includes treatment decisions and outcomes data for patients enrolled in the Company’s ongoing INSIGHT study (NCT03289780). This unique observational study enrolls non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients across all stages and histologies collecting blood draws at baseline and serially at progression. The dataset records the treatment plan, clinical characteristics and will track three-year outcomes for all NSCLC patients from 33 academic and community clinical practices. By linking this data to other datasets, the partnership will provide a more complete longitudinal view of patient health, while protecting patient privacy. “In our partnerships with our research and biopharmaceutical partners, they continually look for data sets that reflect the real world,” stated Dr. Paul Beresford, Chief Business Officer of Biodesix. “With our database and biospecimen repositor...