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Foundation Medicine

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Traded as
  
NASDAQ: FMI

Number of employees
  
275 (Dec 2014)

CEO
  
Troy Cox

Chief medical officer
  
Vincent Miller

Products
  
FoundationOne Heme

Website
  
Official website

COO
  
Steven Kafka


Key people
  
Michael J. Pellini (CEO) Steve Kafka (COO) David Daly (CCO)

Owners
  
Hoffmann-La Roche (56%, 2015)

Stock price
  
FMI (NASDAQ) US$ 31.80 -0.40 (-1.24%)15 Mar, 10:29 AM GMT-4 - Disclaimer

Headquarters
  
Massachusetts, United States

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About foundation medicine


Foundation Medicine, Inc. is a public American company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts which develops, manufactures and sells genomic analysis diagnostics for solid and circulating cancers. The company's tests are based on next-generation sequencing technology.

Foundation Medicine went public in August 2013; its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FMI.

As of December 2014, the company had 275 employees.

The company's flagship product was FoundationOne, the FoundationOne Heme diagnostic test being for blood cancers.

In November and December 2014, the company established agreements with COTA (Cancer Outcomes Tracking and Analysis) and Flatiron Health, respectively, aimed at increasing the volume of genomic and clinical patient data available to it. In 2015, Roche announced a plan to purchase a 56.3% stake in the company through a US$780,000,000 purchase of newly issued shares. Roche also announced an intention to invest US$400,000,000 toward Foundation Medicine's operations, development and R&D activities.

Foundation Medicine also has business agreements with Johnson & Johnson and Novartis.

The company's chief executive officer (CEO) is Michael J. Pellini. The company's chief operating officer (COO) is Steve Kafka. The company's chief commercial officer (CCO) is David Daly.

References

Foundation Medicine Wikipedia