Diagnostic Testing & Technology Report

At the City of Hope National Medical Center’s Clinical Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory (CMDL; Duarte, CA), it’s all about context. The CMDL is guided by what it calls the "Epidiomics Vision" of "molecular diagnosis in the context of molecular epidemiology and bioinformatics to guide the physician in the age of personalized predictive and preventive medicine." Fittingly, it is the laboratory’s strong ties to epidemiology, bioinformatics, and genetic research that have helped the eight-year-old CMDL to build a growing molecular test menu of impressive breadth, depth, and complexity.