DLC has significant experience in clinical performance studies for IVDs. Over the last five years, DLC has managed large, multi-country studies with over 5,000 subjects enrolled, as well as smaller studies, in Europe and the US. Around 30% of these studies were performed to generate data for FDA product clearance and included the preparation of 510(k) submissions to FDA.
Clinical areas of performance studies managed by DLC include:
- Cancer detection and monitoring e.g. colorectal, breast, lung
- Sars-CoV-2 diagnosis
- Coagulation factors
- Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Vein Thrombosis
- Infectious diseases (HPV, HepB, Chlamidia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Group B Streptococcus, Torch etc)
- Sepsis
- Hormone measurement
- In vitro fertilization (sperm cell selection)