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Registration Now Open for AMP Annual Meeting and Outreach Course!

Registration for the AMP 2012 Annual Meeting on Genomic Medicine and the Molecular Pathology Outreach Course are now open. Visit the respective webpages for these events for more information and to register today.

Abstract Submission Period Ends May 31!

Submit your abstract for the AMP 2012 Annual Meeting on Genomic Medicine. The deadline to submit is May 31, 2012. Submission requirements and other information are available now.

AMP Forms Working Group to Further Consider Oversight of Lab Tests

The goal of the group is to produce a white paper that will outline the key issues, and provide AMP's recommendations for future LDT oversight.
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AMP Optimistic in Suit to invalidate Patents on Breast Cancer Genes

March 2012: AMP is optimistic that it will ultimately prevail in its lawsuit to invalidate patents on two genes that are known to cause breast cancer.
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AMP Applauds Supreme Court Ruling: Sees Win for Patients and Personalized Medicine

March 2012: "Prometheus acknowledged that physicians can infringe the patent by merely thinking about the relationship between drug metabolite levels and patient response," stated Dr. Iris Schrijver.
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Current Issue of AMP News

Read the March 2012 AMP Newsletter for information on AMP's education, advocacy, innovation & improved patient care, and membership affairs initiatives.

AMP Requests Moratorium on Human Gene Patenting

February 2012: AMP testified at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office hearing regarding patents on human genes.
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AMP Membership Approves New Governance Structure

February 2012: In support of its newly implemented strategic plan, the membership of AMP adopted a significant change in its governance structure.
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AMP Mourns the Loss of Constance A. Griffin, MD

AMP mourns the loss of Constance (Connie) A. Griffin, MD, who passed away January 8, 2012 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Connie was an oncologist, clinical cytogeneticist, researcher in pancreatic cancer and a long time AMP member and member of the Solid Tumors Subdivision. View the Baltimore Sun Notice.

U.S. Supreme Court Petitioned to Review AMP et al. Lawsuit on Gene Patents

December 2011: AMP is optimistic the Supreme Court will follow its precedents that render natural products, natural laws, and natural phenomena ineligible for patent protection.
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AMP Opposes Exclusive Licensing of NIH Proteomics Patent

November 2011: AMP Responds to the NIH on the proposal to exclusively license the subject matter of a cancer-related proteonomics patent application filed by the Agency titled "Prospective Grant of Exclusive License: The Development of a Companion
Diagnostic Kit for Predicting Therapeutic Efficacy of Anti-Cancer Agents."
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