BioReference Lab Partners With Two Organizations Accelerating Medical Innovation

(RTTNews) - BioReference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI) said it has joined two leading organizations - the Pistoia Alliance and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health or GA4GH - focused on accelerating pharmaceutical R&D and medical innovation through collaboration, data sharing and best practices.

The Pistoia Alliance is a global, not-for-profit alliance of more than 80 life science companies, vendors, publishers, academic groups, and individuals that work together to reduce barriers to innovation in R&D.

The projects that the Pistoia Alliance works on helps transform R&D innovation through pre-competitive collaboration and brings together the key constituents to identify the root causes that lead to R&D inefficiencies.

GA4GH was formed to help accelerate the potential of genomic medicine to advance human health. It brings together more than 285 leading organizations in 30 countries, including some of the world's key healthcare providers, research funders, research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, disease advocacy organizations, and life science and information technology companies.

GA4GH members work together to create a common framework of harmonized approaches to enable the responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and clinical data.

Additionally, BioReference has become the first commercial laboratory to make a Beacon available to the worldwide medical research community. The Beacon project is an initiative of the Data Working Group of GA4GH, and the objective of the project is to test the willingness of international sites to share basic genetic data.