CGI’s co-founder and CEO, Dr. Julie Eggington, was a winner of a 2019 Sego Award in Innovation in Technology as a leader in Utah’s business community, a unique accomplishment for the leader of a nonprofit organization. She was recently interviewed by Salt Lake City’s...
Clinical Laboratory News: ELEVATEGENETICS Helps Align Reimbursement with Genetic Test Value
“Aligning Genetic and Genomic Test Reimbursement With Value of Tests” is an invited article just published in Clinical Laboratory News of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, authored by CGI’s Drs. Eggington and Garlapow. They summarize issues with...
Genomic Test Inaccuracies: CGI Speaks with the American Society of Hematology
CGI’s co-founder, Dr. Julie Eggington, and CGI’s ELEVATEGENETICS Standards Committee member, Dr. John Pfeifer, were interviewed by the American Society of Hematology for their article “Demystifying DNA Variant Reporting”, published on December 1, 2020. Dr. Pfeifer...
Many Positive Variant Classifications May Be Unsupported by Evidence: CGI Presentation at NSGC Conference
CGI presented its work on how pathogenic variant classifications are not always well-supported by evidence. Working together with genetic counselors from Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers and Texas Oncology, CGI collected de-identified patient reports and examined the...
A Comprehensive Way to Estimate False Positive Rates in Genetic Testing: CGI Presentation at NSGC Conference
At the National Society of Genetic Counselors Annual Education Conference, CGI presented a poster on “Calculating and Communicating Error Estimates for Pathogenic Variant Classifications in Germline Sequence Tests.” The poster focused on CGI’s creation of a Positive...
Lawsuit Revelation: Accurate Variant Classification Is Difficult
Dr. Julie Eggington, Co-founder and CGI CEO, was asked by the press to comment on the outcomes of the Williams v Quest/Athena variant classification lawsuit: “Experts acknowledged...that variant classification remains a growing source of lab liability that the genetic...
CGI Abstract Wins Reviewer’s Choice Award from the American Society of Human Genetics
CGI presented the poster “Calculating and Communicating Error Estimates for Pathogenic Variant Classifications in Germline Sequence Tests” at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. The poster won the “Reviewer’s Choice Award”, meaning it was...
CGI Awarded CDC Funded Project From the Utah Department of Health
In October 2020, the Center for Genomic Interpretation (CGI) was awarded funding from the Utah Cancer Genomics Program for “Quality Matters: Recognizing and Assessing Differences in BRCA and Lynch Syndrome Genetic Tests Across Laboratories Most Used by Utah’s...