Survey Summary Technologies.v3
Institution | Contact | Primary Technology | No. of Samples for Primary | Other Technologies | No. of Samples for Other | Instruments for NGS | MRD Sensitivity | External QA | Research EQA Too | Comments or Other Details |
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Center for Prostate Disease Research (CPDR) |
Gregory Chesnut |
quantitative proteomics. ddPCR. Large serum/whole mount biobank and now diverse organoid modeling |
TBD |
ddPCR based urine exosomal RNA assays, NanoString, FISH and IHC combinations (tissues) |
TBD |
Affiliated at USUHS |
N/A |
USCAP |
Yes |
Delighted to serve wider within network |
EVMS/UT/UCLA |
Paul Boutros |
Proteomics, computational biology |
Depends on the type of proteomics assay |
Broad genomics core |
Computational biology, only limited by compute activities |
Effectively any modern-sequencer |
N/A |
CAP-CLIA |
No |
N/A |
Fred Hutch Cancer Center |
Cecilia Yeung |
Molecular diagnostics - Next generation sequencing, digital PCR, methylation PCR, and other permutations of PCR, Long read sequencing, Hi-C sequencing, methylation sequencing. Pathology/immunohistochemistry - histology, tissue microarray, immunohistochemistry, multiplex immunohistochemistry, spatial proteomics (high plex immunohistochemistry), spatial transcriptomics, digital pathology |
10,000 |
flow cytometry, antibody development, function screening, Elisa, western blot, Mass spec |
20,000 |
Ion Torrent, illumina |
0.05 |
CAP, lab to lab exchange |
Yes |
Our lab also has the capability to develop standards and controls. Happy to collaborate with other centers. |
Johns Hopkins |
Daniel Chan |
Immunoassay and Clinical Chemistry platforms, mass spectrometry. |
Several thousands. |
Genomics - PCR, NGS, anatomic pathology |
500 |
Three NovaSeq 6000 and two NovaSeq X. |
analytic LOD of ~0.001%. |
CAP and others |
No |
N/A |
LungLife AI |
Paul Pagano |
Rare cell isolation and analysis (multi-parameter flow cytometry and fluorescent microscopy, nucleic acid analysis) |
5000 |
ELISA, PCR, FISH |
5000 |
N/A |
N/A |
CAP |
No |
N/A |
LynxDx, Inc. |
John Kitchen |
OpenArray qPCR |
15,000 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
In startup mode, currently resources devoted to clinical testing and internal development, fee for service limited to clinical samples. |
Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC. (MSD) |
Martin Stengelin |
MULTI-ARRAY multiplexed Immunoassays |
>100,000 |
"Immunoassay development, Multiplexed assay panel development, N-PLEX (DNA/RNA multiplexed assays), Extracellular vesicle assays |
>10,000 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
NIST |
Hua-Jun He |
Reference materials and assay methods development |
2 to 3 reference materials development and assay validation |
Quantitative PCR, digital PCR, NGS, flow cytometry and other instrumental analysis tools. |
It dependents the time and efforts needed. |
PGM, miSeq, iSeq, and Oxford Nanopore GridION |
N/A |
Metrology |
N/A |
We are a federal government laboratory, and we are not a CLIA-certified clinical laboratory. Happy to share our current RMs or research grade test materials developed under EDRN (free of charge). Develop customized RMs. Validate assays through orthogonal methods or interlab testing. |
NCI |
Wendy Wang |
Grant management |
Reference Samples |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Program may be able to join BRL activities. |
NYU |
Leopoldo Segal |
Sequencing for DNA/RNA, LC-MS Metabolomics, Nanostring. These are available though institutional cores though Nanostring is done in Dr. Pass lab (MPI of our BRL). |
RNA and DNA sequencing: ~1,000. LC-MS: a few hundred each year. Otherwise: TBD |
Luminex, scRNA seq, CyTOF, DSP GeoMx and COSmx, Visium, spatial metabolomics. These are available though institutional cores. |
scRNA seq: on maybe ~100. luminex, CyTOF, DSP, Visium, spatial metabolomics: few hundreds |
Illumina |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
Tao Liu |
Mass spectrometry-based proteomics, including both targeted and unbiased protein analysis, as well as spatial and single-cell proteomics capabilities. |
targeted LC-MS: 1000. PRISM-SRM (fractionation coupled to LC-MS):300. untargeted proteomics: 400. |
Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics. |
600 samples for metabolomics. |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
As an IAA, we do not have a BDL component; however, we can work with any BDL or BRL for both biomarker discovery and/or validation studies. |
University of California, Los Angeles (BU-UCLA) |
Michael Palazzolo |
Veracyte: nasal epithelium RNA whole transcriptome sequencing; LungLife AI: blood-based custom 4-color FISH assay test; Imaging BRL: image archiving, quality control, segmentation/annotation |
TBD |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
University of Maryland |
Sanford Stass/Robert Christenson |
Transfer after validation of bio markers to a CLIA/CAP lab using our experience and also extensive knowledge of FDA approval and multiple successes. Also experience in core clinical lab technology with our Clinical Chemistry Research Laboratory which is CLIA/CAP and also has extensive experience in immunologic assays |
100 |
Molecular Diagnostic Technology including sequencing and liquid biopsies. |
100My |
MySeq and NextSeq |
N/A |
All CAP Surveys |
Yes |
N/A |
University of Michigan |
Lanbo Xiao |
super-high throughput qPCR (OpenArray) |
500-1000 |
capture based RNA-seq and exosome sequencing. |
100 |
nova-seq |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
University of Minnesota |
Stefani Thomas |
Mass spectrometry |
>15,000 |
Automated chemistry analyzers, RT-PCR, ELISA, Next-gen sequencing, O-link, Quanterix, Flow cytometry, Long read sequencing |
>600,000 |
Illumina Nextseq 2000, Illumina Miseq, ThermoFisher Ion GeneStudio S5 Prime with integrated Ion Chef System, Oxford Nanopore PromethION 24 (long read sequencer) |
N/A |
CAP, Equalis for cystatin C and iohexol, NGSP for A1C |
Yes |
N/A |
University of Washington/Fred Hutch |
Andy Hoofnagle |
Immuno-MRM |
>10,000 |
Flow cytometry, next-gen sequencing, ELISA development. |
10,000 |
Illumina - MiSeq, NextSeq 500/550, and NextSeq 2000s. |
0.4% VAF |
CAP |
No |
Some nuances: (1) We can return results with proper consent and assay validation, (2) Some research assays do participate in EQA programs, most do not. |
Massachusetts General Hospital |
Steven Skates |
Olink proteomics using the Target-96 platform |
TBD |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
We collaborate with Fulgent Genetics, which assays samples in a CLIA certified US laboratory. |