Business Strategy

The strategic partnerships with hospitals have been fundamental to the Company's progress to date by providing access to patients and vast amounts of medical information and by instilling a culture of advanced healthcare. These partnerships have promoted clinical development of our products on an extremely cost efficient basis.

Hartford Hospital, a major New England tertiary care and community health care center serving Connecticut statewide, is one of the country's leading clinical research hospitals. Its Institute of Living (IOL) has been ranked among the Top 20 psychiatric hospitals in the country by US News & World Report. Hartford Hospital strategic partnerships, established in 2004, span cardiovascular and psychotropic drugs and include intellectual property licenses, clinical studies in preventive cardiology and psychiatry, joint NIH grants, clinical DNA typing, and medical education. Genomas is located on the Hartford Hospital campus in downtown Hartford and leases 4,000 sq. ft. of state-of-the-art laboratory and office space in the first floor of the Florence T. Crane building at 67 Jefferson St. The Hospital also provides infrastructure, computer and internet services, security, custodial and bio- hazard disposal services to the Company. The Hospital has consistently recognized the partnership in its communications and media outreach as "the future of medicine, here today" and as "now tailoring your care to your genetic make-up".

Hospital of Central Connecticut is an acute-care teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and with the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, a world leader in diabetes treatment, research and education. As a Joslin affiliate, the Hospital develops rigorous standards of diabetes care and helps patients to manage their disease throughout their lifetime. The strategic partnership, established in October 2006, includes intellectual property licenses, clinical studies in anti-diabetic drug management and medical education.

The University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences is entrusted with teaching, research, and service in the health sciences. At its Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Public Health, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Health, UPR Medical Sciences is committed to strengthen translational biomedical research and to advance its clinical application. The partnership, established in January 2008, includes a memorandum of understanding, clinical studies on the Island to advance personalized healthcare in Hispanics, medical education, and research mentoring.

Clinical Laboratory Partners (CLP) is a for-profit subsidiary of Hartford Healthcare Corporation, the holding company for the Hartford Hospital System. CLP is the largest and fastest growing regional laboratory in Connecticut, operating more than fifty patient service centers throughout the State. Established in Newington, CT in 1998, CLP serves over one million patients and performs over four million lab tests per year. CLP has extensive experience with payers and accepts all major insurance plans. In Connecticut, the HILOmet PhyzioType System developed by Genomas is available through CLP, which also administers reimbursement for these tests. The success rate for reimbursement of our HILOmet tests through CLP, which includes Medicare and Medicaid, has been very high.