Overview
Foundation Medicine is dedicated to helping bring personalized cancer medicine into routine clinical practice. Harnessing advanced technology, Foundation is developing clinical laboratory tests that will broadly capture the most relevant tumor genomic and other molecular information from routine tumor specimens and connect it with relevant scientific and medical knowledge to help oncologists determine the right treatment for each patient. Foundation Medicine’s founding academic advisors are widely recognized leaders in cancer genomics, cancer biology, clinical oncology and information sciences. The company is backed by Third Rock Ventures, and is located in Cambridge, MA.