Talk by Tero-Pekka Alastalo, CEO - Blueprint Genetics (FI), at Stanford on Jan 4 2016, in our session on 'European Startup Bridges in Silicon Valley'.
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1. Tero-Pekka Alastalo, MD, PhD
President, Chief Medical Officer
European Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Stanford School of Engineering
4 Jan 2016
http://blueprintgenetics.com
2. • We are a genetic diagnostics company founded in Helsinki, Finland
• Proprietary NGS sequencing method, OS-Seq, developed at
Stanford University by a Finnish DNA biologists Samuel
Myllykangas, published in Nature Biotechnology
• OS-Seq represents the most effective targeted sequencing technology
in the market – developed for medical applications
Background
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Stanford University
Oligonucleotid-
selective
sequencing
OS-Seq™
Nature Biotechnology
2011
3. OS-SeqTM Technology
hybrid selection and enrichment on flow cell
SEQUENCING
LIBRARY
RANDOM SHEARING
Day
1
TARGET
ENRICHMENT
and
SEQUENCING
SEQUENCING
LIBRARY
Target enrichment
on flow cell
Sequencing on
Illumina system
Sequencing
library
Oligonucleotide
library
PREPARATION
Capture of genomic targets in situ Flow cell
Fully integrated target enrichment and sequencing
PROCESSING
SEQUENCING
Days 1 - 3
4. Illumina(TruSight BpG(OS3Seq BpG(PCR3free(OS3Seq
Manual&steps 15 7 5
Hands0on&time 4h&45min 1h&45min 1h&15min
Total&time 52h 5h&45&min 4h
Illumina(TruSight
BpG(OS3Seq
BpG(PCR3free(OS3Seq
Reaction(set3up
Fragmentation
Tagmentation
End(repair(and(A3tailing
Clean3up
Ligation
PCR
Hybridization
Pull3down
DAY$2 DAY$3DAY$1
• OS-Seq has 63% (with PCR) or 74% (PCR-free) faster hands-on time
• OS-Seq has 89% (with PCR) or 92% (PCR-free) faster total time
Workflow
5. A Top Product with Lowest COGS
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Developed in
Stanford and
published in
Nature, our OS-
Seq method
provides extreme
efficiency for
sequencing
World’s first IBM
Watson-platform
for inherited
disorders takes
the clinical
interpretation of
data to a next
level
We have
industry’s lowest
COGS
>60%
SAVINGS**
60-80%
LESS LAB
WORK**
** Compared to Illumina TruSight
High
reliability data
with 99-100%
coverage
6. Our Process
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A physician
sends us a
sample
We sequence
the DNA with
our cost efficient
OS-Seq method
yielding high
coverage
We interpret the
the data clinically
with our IBM
Watson based big
data platform
We send a report online
and get a payment
SAMPLE
SEQUENCING
ANALYSIS
REPORT
7. Solving the Problems
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Customers are
frustrated:
Solving all of these
problems is a revolution:
Difficult to
communicate with
testing laboratory
High non-transparent
pricing; Unclear
billing policies
Turnaround times
are too long
Diagnostic yield is
poor, too many
false negatives due
to small panels and
low sequencing
coverage
We focus highly on clinical
specialties, our geneticists
provide clinical support
in the report
Due to extremely low
production cost we are able to
lead price development and
have an aggressive
Max-out-of-pocket policy
We run a turnaround time of 3
weeks, not several months
We have the best diagnostic
yield in the market due to
comprehensive panels and
high sequencing coverage
Fast lead time
21 DAYS
Coverage
100%
Starting at
$1500
Gapless panels fully cover
target genes
Genetic diagnostics with
unbeatable turn-around
time
New technology and
innovations allow
remarkable cost-
efficiency
9. Over 4000 disease with known
molecular genetic background, >36
million patients in Europe
Cancer diagnostics and targeted
treatment
Pharmacogenomics – essential tool
for todays’s drug development
Genetics Is Changing Medicine
10. We Are in a Unique Position For Growth in
an Exploding Market
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NGS
in inherited
disorders
grows to a
$1.5Bn market
by 2020*
$308m
in 2015
Inherited disorders is a large healthcare problem, affecting 5% of population and
driving healthcare costs. We have the best product and the lowest production cost.
Inherited disorder
diagnostics is a huge
growth market with 38%
CAGR for the next five
years
* Source: BCC Research, BIO126B Next-Gen Sequencing - Emerging Clinical Applications
and Global Markets
11. THANK YOU!
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Tero-Pekka Alastalo, President
+1 650 285 8564
tpa@blueprintgenetics.com
953 Indiana Street, QB3@953
CA 94107 San Francisco