Avera Health and Theralink Technologies announced a strategic collaboration to advance comprehensive molecular profiling, enabling Avera Health's providers and patients to benefit from data-driven insights that inform targeted cancer treatments. Avera has a long-standing history of leading the way in precision oncology with patients' tumors being genetically sequenced to guide individualized cancer care. Theralink, with its patented protein and phosphoprotein biomarker platform and lab developed test, is the only commercially available assay for clinical use that measures the tumor cell levels of activated proteins, which are the primary targets of most FDA-approved therapies and biopharmaceutical investigational drugs.

Theralink will provide key patient-specific information about which drug targets are activated and "in use" in each patient tumor sample. This information, coupled with the genomics findings, will provide a comprehensive molecular profile for all Avera oncology patients by way of a multiomic report used for physician treatment decisions. As part of this collaboration, Avera will assist Theralink Technologies in validating new clinical assays for additional tumors (such as GYN, Head and Neck, GI, Lung, Kidney, Liver and Prostate) through retrospective case analysis and population-based data.

This may bring new capability and insights to precision oncology care and allow for the Theralink assay to become a pan-tumor assay.