The University of Toledo

Welcome to the University of Toledo Medical Center Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory web page.  We  provide state of the art technology and molecular assays for the detection of human genetic diseases and infectious diseases.  The department has a Molecular diagnostics Consult Service where official consultative reports are provided by the medical director regarding available testing  with evaluation of  laboratory data in the clinical context of individual patients. Our expanding test menu is listed below with links to information about each test. 
Molecular diagnostics is the fastest growing area in pathology and is at the forefront of Medicine in diseases such as cancer.  At the interface between clinical medicine and the basic science of molecular biology, we strive to use advancing technology and research discoveries to develop diagnostic tests that can improve the care of our patients.  We have a particular interest in collaborating with cancer and genetics researchers who  are in need the services of next-generation sequencing.  This technique provides very large quantities of sequence data that can then be applied to investigations of particular mutations in individual tumor types that are predictive of disease and response to therapies.  Discovering these molecular mechanisms will allow for much more individualized therapy and better cancer care.  This technology will also allow for investigation of the molecular genetics of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Autism.