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Castle Biosciences Honored with a 2022 AZBio Fast Lane Award from the Arizona Bioindustry Association
FRIENDSWOOD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Castle Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSTL), a company improving health through innovative tests that guide patient care,
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[{"type":"text","content":" FRIENDSWOOD, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCastle Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSTL), a company improving health through innovative tests that guide patient care, today announced that it has received an AZBio Fast Lane Award from the Arizona Bioindustry Association (AZBio).\n\n“Castle Biosciences is working to transform how diseases are managed with the goal of making life better for patients,” said Joan Koerber-Walker, president and chief executive officer of AZBio. “We are excited to honor them with a 2022 AZBio Fast Lane Award for their substantial growth and success over the past 18 months and the strides they are taking to improve patient care for the patients of today and tomorrow.”\n\nThe AZBio Fast Lane Award recognizes companies that have achieved outstanding milestones in the last 18 months, measured by clinical results, regulatory approvals, certifications, collaborations, funding awards, product launches, job growth or product sales milestones. Highlights of some of Castle’s notable achievements impacting patients, physicians and the healthcare industry over the past year and a half include:\n\n\nMore than doubling its workforce, expanding from 201 employees to more than 480 between Dec. 31, 2020, and June 30, 2022. This includes substantial growth in Castle’s main laboratory in Phoenix and in the Company’s other locations, including its headquarters in Friendswood, Texas, and its satellite laboratory in Pittsburgh.\n\n\nExpanding the Company’s innovative portfolio of tests in areas of unmet clinical need (gastroenterology and mental health) through two strategic acquisitions (Cernostics, with the TissueCypher® Barrett’s Esophagus test, and AltheaDx, with the IDgenetix® test).\n\n\nExpanding data that demonstrates the potential value of Castle’s tests to guide patient care and transform disease management through the publication of 22 peer-reviewed papers and close to 100 posters and/or oral presentations.\n\n\nInitiating a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to link DecisionDx®-Melanoma testing data with data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program’s registries on cutaneous melanoma (CM) cases that resulted in a study analysis showing that patients diagnosed with melanoma and tested with DecisionDx-Melanoma had improved survival (27% improvement in melanoma-specific survival)...