About OncNGS

The project

OncNGS consortium wishes to develop novel affordable solutions to provide the best NGS tests, for all solid tumours / lymphomas patients, forever. Thanks to the provided solutions, oncNGS consortium wish to address their common identified unmet medical needs:

  • Establishment of valuable common tumour profiling strategy allowing to provide equal access to innovative medicines to all;
  • Enable to perform outcome research analysis after treatments with targeted therapies as diverse testing leads to lowering the pooling capacity of obtained results, needed to obtain large enough sample numbers to perform statistics analyses;
  • Application of such essential testing to all patients, breaking down current unacceptable inequities due to the high costs of current diagnostics tests.


The challenge will consist in providing:

  1. efficient molecular DNA/RNA profiling of tumour-derived material in liquid biopsies by means of
  2. pan-cancer tumour marker analysis kit including NGS analysis integrated with
  3. an ICT decision support system including analytical test interpretation and reporting.

Process of DNA/RNA profiling on samples from cancer patients.

The figure above is picturing the overall process of DNA/RNA profiling of samples from cancer patients, from sample collection to reporting. The pre-analytical phase consisting in isolation of DNA/RNA analyte from samples (tissue of blood specimen) is out of scope of the oncNGS project. OncNGS starts with the wetlab steps for preparation of the NGS analysis. The generated sequences are then bioinformatically compiled and different types of variants are being identified. All relevant variants are then integrated into a report that will be used by the clinicians in their interpretation and diagnosis of the tumor.

 

The consortium

OncNGS is a strong consortium composed of 8 buyers from 5 member states

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supported by 6 entities with wide experience in their fields :