Castle Biosciences’ IDgenetix Test Receives 2024 MedTech Breakthrough Award for “Best Overall Mental Health Solution” - Seite 2

IDgenetix is Castle Biosciences' advanced precision medicine test that offers clinicians an objective way to choose or modify neuropsychiatric medication for their patients with mental health conditions. By combining pharmacogenomics (PGx) — the practice of analyzing a patient’s DNA for pharmacogenetic biomarkers that may influence response to medication — with drug-drug interactions and lifestyle factor data, IDgenetix can help facilitate a more informed approach to mental health care in patients suffering from 10 neuropsychiatric conditions. While currently available PGx tests include information on genetic variants that may affect the efficacy or side-effect profile of a prescribed medication, Castle believes IDgenetix offers more by also considering lifestyle factors and drug-drug interactions. Randomized controlled study data presented at Psych Congress 2023 showed that integrating drug-gene, drug-drug and lifestyle factors provides 75% more guided information compared to traditional drug-gene interactions alone.²

Castle has previously won three consecutive MedTech Breakthrough Awards: “Best Use of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare” in 2023 for its TissueCypher Barrett's Esophagus test, “Best New Technology Solution — Dermatology” in 2022 for its DecisionDx-Melanoma gene expression profile (GEP) test, and “Best New Technology Solution — Oncology” in 2021 for its DecisionDx-SCC and DiffDx-Melanoma GEP tests.

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