FDA Grants Invitrogen Premarket Approval of Breast Cancer Test

Jul 8, 2008 - Invitrogen Corporation, a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) premarket approval (PMA) for its SPOT-Light(R) HER2 CISH Kit, indicated as an aid in the assessment of breast cancer patients for whom trastuzumab (Herceptin(R)) treatment is being considered. The approval marks the first PMA that Invitrogen has received from the FDA. The whole story cna be read here.