Company News
2024
Regulatory
April 1, 2024. Laboratorios Columbia S.A. de C.V, and Milagen are very pleased to announce that they have submitted to COFEPRIS (the Mexican regulatory Agency equivalent to FDA in USA) our application for Class II Medical device approval for the following intended uses: 1) Monitoring the efficacy of cancer therapy, in breast cancer patients, in real time; 2) Active surveillance of cancer recurrence, in cancer survivors; and 3) screening for the early detection of breast cancer in asymptomatic individuals over 45 years old.
2023
Clinical Study
September 28, 2023. Milagen and Laboratorios Columbia S.A. de C.V, agreed to conduct a major clinical study involving major Hospitals in Mexico City such as Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS), Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia (INCAN), Hospitals ABC and hospitals la Candesa, to monitor cancer therapy efficacy in women with breast cancer.
2023
Regulatory
June 24, 2023. Laboratorios Columbia S.A. de C.V, and Milagen, agreed to apply to COFEPRIS (the Mexican regulatory Agency equivalent to FDA in USA) to obtain the clearance for three intended uses for breast cancer early detection and for cancer management. The two companies also agreed to conduct additional clinical studies and to involve Mexican key opinion leaders using Mexican patients.
2023
Regulatory
August 8, 2022-Feb. 2023. Milagen applied to the FDA for Breakthrough Device Designation of its serum-based immunoassay for the early detection of multiple cancers (breast cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and ovarian cancer) in asymptomatic individuals over 45 years old.
After several rounds of discussion with the Agency, Milagen received favorable feedback and indications to include additional samples, specifically benign samples from the lung cancer patient population, DCIS samples from the breast cancer patient population and benign Type 1 samples from the colorectal cancer patient population.
2023
Commercial Partnership
March 23, 2023. Milagen and Laboratorios Columbia S.A. de C.V, a pharmaceutical company in Mexico with 60 years of manufacturing and selling pharmaceutical products, entered in negotiation for the commercialization of Milagen cancer care products in Mexico.
Milagen is a private diagnostic company with a product portfolio for cancer care (early detection of cancer recurrence and for the monitoring of therapy efficacy in real time) and the early detection of cancer for a wide population screening of asymptomatic individuals over 45 years.
2022
Regulatory
September 27, 2022. Milagen receives a California Clinical Laboratory license from CDPH and a CLIA certificate from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) allowing it to offer CLIA services to breast and colorectal cancer survivors to monitor for recurrence and cancer therapy efficacy.
2022
Regulatory
Nov. 29, 2021-August 16, 2022. Milagen submitted its Pre-PMA submission data to the FDA for wide-population screening of asymptomatic individuals over 45 years old for the early detection of multiple cancers (breast, colorectal, lung, ovary and prostate cancer), using serum samples.
A FDA diagnostic panel of 13 experts analyzed Milagen’s submitted data and over the course of several months contributed to several discussions about each screening test and its correlation to the tissue of origin. The FDA recognized the potential paradigm shift of serum-based assays for the early detection of cancer and made favorable recommendations going forward. Milagen and the agency agreed on the inclusion and exclusion criteria for each screening test for asymptomatic healthy individuals.
2022
Regulatory
September 02, 2022. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) field team conducts a thorough inspection of Milagen’s clinical laboratory. The inspection team found the laboratory to be in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations and recommended issuance of a California Clinical Laboratory license.
2022
Regulatory
May 20, 2022. Milagen announces it has filed an application with the California department of Public Health (CDPH) seeking approval to open its CLIA facility. The CLIA clinical laboratory will provide services for breast and colorectal cancer survivors in the areas of monitoring treatment efficacy and active surveillance for recurrence.