Dr Jennifer Gass Provides an Overview of FCS' Next-Generation Sequencing Laboratory

The state-of-the-art Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) laboratory provides next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing, which helps oncologists identify genetic mutations in hundreds of different genes, all at once.

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How are things going and who is the team at the team at the new NGS laboratory that opened about a year ago at FCS?

Our pathology lab is made up of 8 different pathologist, 2 laboratory geneticist, and multiple departments. My department is the molecular department, and we are the ones that run the next generation sequencing (NGS). And within that department, we have 10 technologists and 2 variants scientists, as well as a molecular manager to support our NGS testing.

Everything is going well! we launched our first NGS test in July of 2021 and now we have brought on another test, so we support both solid tumor and hematological malignancies. And we look forward to bringing on more technologies with NGS as well as more molecular technologies.