Main navigation Meet IdyllaTM Oncology Infectious Disease Pharma Research In your country About us Service Investors Careers IFU Secure area Select language Highlight Open/Close Search Contact us +32 15 632 600 OUR PARTNERS Breadcrumb Home About us Our partners Menu Biocartis signed an agreement with A*STAR, Singapore's lead public sector agency that spearheads economic oriented research to advance scientific discovery and develop innovative technologies, aimed at the joint development of a range of proprietary tests for the Idylla™ platform, with a main focus on cancer biomarkers. On 10 July 2017, Biocartis announced the renewal of its five-year strategic partnership with ETPL (the commercialization arm of A*STAR, Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research), where parties will co-invest in the development of jointly selected tests. Biocartis is responsible for the commercialization of the tests under its own label, and ETPL as the development partner through Singapore’s Diagnostics Development (DxD) Hub. More Less In February 2016, Biocartis announced its collaboration with Amgen, a leading biotechnology company (NASDAQ: AMGN), to offer its new RAS biomarker tests to hospitals in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Turkey. Aim of the partnership is to accelerate access to RAS biomarker information in the selected countries. In December 2016, the partnership was expanded to accelerate access to RAS biomarker information in up to 10 European countries. One year later, in December 2017, Biocartis announced the signing of its CDx development agreement with Amgen, aimed at the registration of the Idylla™ RAS biomarker tests with the US FDA as a companion diagnostic test for Amgen’s drug Vectibix® (panitumumab). More Less Biocartis and AstraZeneca, a global science-led biopharmaceutical company (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN), announced their first partnership agreement on 29 November 2018, focused on overcoming the current complexity and long turnaround time of biomarker testing for lung cancer patients. In January 2020, the collaboration expanded to a master collaboration agreement, with as first project the large prospective lung cancer study with the (Research Use Only). The study, which was selected for presentation at the renowned ESMO Virtual Congress in September 2020 (poster 1205P), concluded that Idylla™ EGFR testing may add value in a clinical setting to generate actionable EGFR mutation results for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients faster than routinely used methods. More Less On 12 March 2019, Biocartis announced the signing of a collaboration agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY), a global biopharmaceutical company, aimed at the potential registration as a companion diagnostic and use of the Idylla™ MSI test in connection with immuno-oncology therapies. The collaboration agreement allows for joint developments and registrations of the Idylla™ MSI test for use in a variety of indications, commercial settings and geographies. The first focus under the agreement is expected to be the registration in the United States of the Idylla™ MSI test as a companion diagnostic test in mCRC. On 5 March 2020, Biocartis announced to have signed a new immune-oncology project with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company aimed at the registration of the Idylla™ MSI test in the People’s Republic of China. On 1 October 2020, Biocartis joined the COVID-19 Industry Testing Consortium led by BMS with the aim to improve, innovate and accelerate all aspects of testing, including research, regulatory oversight, clinical implications, reliability and access. More Less On 23 April 2019, Biocartis announced the global strategic commercialization agreement with Covance, LabCorp’s Drug Development business and which has the leading central laboratory network serving the biopharma industry, across multiple therapeutic areas, with a specific focus on precision medicine. The agreement aims at offering the Idylla™ platform and its existing Idylla™ oncology assay menu (research use only) to Covance’s customer base to support global oncology trials and, when appropriate, to validate and implement companion diagnostic applications. More Less On 3 November 2020, Biocartis announced it has entered into a partnership agreement with Endpoint Health, a Palo Alto, CA (USA) based company developing personalized care solutions and targeted therapies for critically ill patients. The partnership targets the development and commercialization of a novel companion diagnostic (CDx) test on the Idylla™ platform, and will further strengthen Biocartis’ CDx business and infectious disease test menu alongside its core oncology offering on Idylla™. Under the terms of the agreement, Endpoint Health will lead the development and registration of the Idylla™ Endpoint CDx test in interventional trials across a range of interventions including targeted immunotherapy and coagulation therapy indications. More Less On 3 November 2020, Biocartis announced it has signed a license, development and commercialization agreement with GeneproDx, a molecular diagnostics company based in Santiago, Chile, for the development of GeneproDx’s novel genomic test ThyroidPrint® on the Idylla™ platform. ThyroidPrint® is a qRT-PCR[i] based mRNA-expression classifier[ii] test that helps to determine whether a thyroid nodule with an indeterminate cytology result is benign or malignant. A benign test result allows physicians to recommend watchful waiting as an alternative to diagnostic surgery, and prevents exposing patients to surgical risks and permanent thyroid hormone supplementation. Under the terms of the agreement, GeneproDx will take the lead in the development of the Idylla™ ThyroidPrint® test, whereas Biocartis will be responsible for the distribution of the ThyroidPrint® on Idylla™ through its growing commercial infrastructure of Idylla™ instruments across the globe. More Less IMMUNEXPRESS Biocartis and Immunexpress Pty Ltd (‘Immunexpress’), a host response molecular diagnostic company committed to improving clinical and economic outcomes for suspected sepsis patients, announced their partnership on 24 January 2018 aimed at the development and commercialization of Immunexpress’ SeptiCypte™ test for use on the Idylla™ platform. On 26 March 2020, Biocartis announced the expansion of its Immunexpress partnership with a co-commercialization agreement for the SeptiCyte® RAPID test for use on the Idylla™ platform, in which Biocartis will lead commercialization in Europe as the exclusive distributor of the SeptiCyte® test, while Immunexpress will lead commercialization of the SeptiCyte® RAPID test in the US. The SeptiCyte® RAPID test was released on market as a CE-marked IVD test as part of Biocartis’ exclusive commercialization of the SeptiCyte® RAPID test on Idylla™ in Europe on 6 October 2020. Septicyte® RAPID Janssen Pharmaceutica NV (JPNV) signed a strategic partnership with Biocartis in December 2010 to co-develop assays for the IdyllaTM platform and collaborate commercially. More Less On 1 June 2019, Biocartis announced that it has entered into a Master Development and Commercialization Agreement with Kite, a Gilead Company (a pharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer cell therapies). The agreement is aimed at the development of molecular-based assays on the Idylla™ platform that are supportive to Kite’s therapies. The collaboration with Kite is Biocartis’ second assay development partnership (next to the partnership with BMS) in the immunotherapy domain, a fast growing market and one of the key strategic focus areas of the Idylla™ assay menu. More Less On 7 June 2017, Biocartis announced its agreement with LifeArc, a medical research charity, for the development of selected MDx tests for Idylla™. For each selected test, LifeArc will act as a development contractor, whereas Biocartis will be responsible for the commercialization of the tests under its own label. Biocartis and LifeArc are developing the Idylla™ Advanced Breast Cancer Panel which is positioned to target a multi-gene panel of predictive and resistance-inducing mutations based on an FFPE sample type. The Idylla™ Advanced Breast Cancer Panel is being prepared for use in research setting (RUO). On 1 September 2020, Biocartis announced to have expanded its agreement with LifeArc. Under the new agreement, LifeArc obtains a non-exclusive licence to use the Idylla™ platform for the development of Idylla™ assays in the area of infectious and immune related diseases, aimed at supporting patient stratification and treatment monitoring of patients with, amongst others, bacterial, fungal and viral infections. More Less Biocartis announced a partnership with Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) in January 2016 to improve access to easy, rapid and low invasive blood-based molecular diagnostic testing for patients with mCRC through liquid biopsy testing. Under the partnership, the liquid biopsy assays Idylla™ ctKRAS Mutation Assay and the Idylla™ ctNRAS-BRAF Mutation Assay were developed. More Less Biocartis announced to have signed an agreement with Nichirei Biosciences for the product registrations and distribution of the Idylla™ platform in Japan. In October 2019, Nichirei Bio completed the registration of the Idylla™ Instrument and Idylla™ Console with the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) in Japan. With that, Nichirei Biosciences will now be able to offer the Idylla™ platform in combination with Idylla™ RUO assays to local pathology laboratories in Japan, whilst both partners are further progressing in vitro diagnostic (‘IVD’) registration preparations for the Idylla™ assays. More Less On 3 September 2018, Biocartis announced to enter into a joint venture with Guangzhou Wondfo Biotech Co., Ltd. (‘Wondfo’, SHE: 300482), a fast growing diagnostics leader in China, aimed at the commercialization of the fully automated molecular diagnostics (MDx) IdyllaTM platform in mainland China, within the field of oncology. The joint venture will be 50% owned by Biocartis and 50% owned by Wondfo. The initial activities of the joint venture are focused on the local manufacturing, commercialization and registration with the Chinese Regulatory Authorities (CFDA) of the existing products in the Idylla MDx oncology test menu for amongst others colorectal and lung cancer. More Less On 22 April 2021 , Biocartis and SkylineDx , a Dutch (Rotterdam) and US (San Diego, California) based private biotechnology company, announced the signing of a new partnership agreement which targets the development of SkylineDx’ novel proprietary test, the Merlin Assay, on the Idylla™ platform. This assay is aimed at predicting a patient’s risk of nodal metastasis in melanoma. Under the terms of the partnership agreement, SkylineDx will lead the development of the Merlin Assay on Idylla™, while Biocartis will lead the commercialization in Europe through its growing Idylla™ network. More Less IdyllaTM Platform IdyllaTM Oncology Tests IdyllaTM Infectious Disease Tests Research Assays Careers Investors Biocartis NV Generaal de Wittelaan 11B B-2800 Mechelen, Belgium Phone: +32 15 632 600 info@biocartis.com FIND YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE CONTACT US DOWNLOAD CENTER Social LinkedIn Facebook YouTube Twitter Footer Cookie policy Privacy policy Terms of use © 2021 Biocartis Created by O2 Agency WELCOME Go to Biocartis Global Go to Biocartis US