The Institut de cancérologie Gustave Roussy (IGR) France announced today that its Genomic Center has been awarded ISO 9001 certification for quality management and compliance to the highest standards of quality by Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), France’s national organization for standardization and certification. The IGR Genomic Center is the first academic Agilent-Certified Service Provider in the world to receive this prestigious certification. IGR is also a European Reference and Training Center for Agilent, running the complete portfolio of Agilent’s microarray technologies.
Professor Gilles Vassal, Director of the Clinical and Translational Research at the Institut Gustave Roussy, said: “The ISO 9001 certificate will impact on our overall performance and efficacy, and bring further reassurance of the standard of our research and services. Both laboratory and bioinformatic processes have been certified, allowing us to reinforce our biomarker discovery strategies.”
Dr Vladimir Lazar, Head of Institut Gustave Roussy’s Genomic Center, added: “The compliance with the ISO 9001 certificate, coupled with the outstanding performances of Agilent’s genomic technologies, including Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH), gene expression and microRNA profiling microarrays, serves to assure our partners and customers of the highest quality of our services.”