Roche Eyes Liquid Biopsy As A Boost To Drug Development, Cancer Monitoring
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Gray Sheet spoke to Roche Molecular Diagnostic's top researcher, Walter Koch, about the promise of liquid biopsy soon after FDA approved its first liquid-biopsy companion diagnostic, Roche's cobas test for the cancer drug Tarceva.
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