Turna Ray
Turna Ray has been covering the personalized medicine and molecular diagnostics industries for GenomeWeb since 2006. She closely tracks the evolving regulatory, reimbursement, and business environment for precision medicine products.

Articles Authored by Turna Ray
Precision Oncology Investments Continue Amid Stubborn Operational Difficulties, Survey Shows
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Precision Medicine Online's 2024 survey shows biomarker test expansion but low clinical trial enrollment and long wait times for advanced therapies.

Precision Medicine Supporters Worry About NIH Indirect Rate Cut's Impact on Advances, Workforce
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Researchers have been "making great inroads" in precision medicine, and a 15 percent cap on indirect costs could quash the momentum, experts worry.

Conservative supporters of government deregulation want to do away with state-imposed licensing requirements, a move genetic counselors say will harm patients.

Patient Advocates Raise Alarm Over Republican Proposal to Nix Healthcare Charity Tax Deductions
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The proposal, purported to save $83 billion over a decade, is a "dagger in the heart of all patient advocacy nonprofits," said the head of a cancer patient support group.

Genetic Testing Challenges in Precision Medicine: Delayed Cascade Testing Due to Unclear Counseling
A patient found to carry a BRCA1 pathogenic variant is not referred to a certified genetic counselor in her health system.

Doctors and patient advocates supporting pretreatment testing at times challenged FDA and other experts who aren't swayed by available evidence.
J&J Reports Strong Uptake of Carvykti and Rybrevant in Q4
The company's multiple myeloma franchise, which includes Carvykti, stands to contribute significantly to its growth in 2025.
Mass General Brigham Becomes Latest US Health System to Adopt Pretreatment DPYD Testing
The change in policy at the health system follows the death of a DPD deficient patient and comes during a period of intense competition among Boston hospitals.

With new treatments in neurology, and more in development in cardiology and autoimmune diseases, precision medicine is moving beyond cancer and rare disease.

Eli Lilly's SERD Benefits Endocrine-Resistant Breast Cancer Patients as Single-Agent, Combination
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Imlunestrant by itself benefited those with ESR1 mutations but also had broad efficacy in ER-positive HER2-negative tumors when combined with a CDK4/6 inhibitor.