BOSTON, United States, LAUSANNE, Switzerland, and HIROSHIMA, Japan – February 22, 2022 – SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH), today announced an agreement with Hiroshima University, one of the top public universities in Hiroshima City, Japan, to support their molecular profiling by next-generation sequencing (NGS) in investigating the pathogenic variants causing different blood cancer disorders.
Hiroshima University is home to one of the largest university research institutes in the field of radiation biomedical science in Japan. With NGS for myeloid testing not widely available in Japan, a group of Hiroshima University researchers tapped the SOPHiA DDM Platform to assist with the clinical utility of NGS tests for myeloid malignancies. Hiroshima University aimed to establish a framework where the NGS-based testing would become a routine part of clinical diagnosis for myeloid neoplasms.