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Quest Diagnostics

Academic collaboration

Helping academic medical centers accelerate discovery

Quest Diagnostics provides the scale and focus to help your institution move innovations forward. By streamlining clinical trials and helping to commercialize diagnostic discoveries, we support your efforts to advance both patient care and medical education.

A shared commitment to progress

The landscape of academic medicine presents unique operational challenges. We recognize the complexities of balancing world-class patient care, pioneering research and education, as well as maintaining financial stability. Our model is built on collaboration, working with you to enhance efficiency and support your core missions of discovery, teaching, and healing. 

An integrated approach to supporting research and education 

Explore how our integrated solutions can support your specific goals. From accelerating clinical trials to pioneering diagnostic innovation, we offer a range of services to help you and the next generation of medical leaders suceed.

Streamline processes and accelerate clinical trials across the institution to grow research revenue and reach. 

  • Advanced research testing portfolio 
  • Enabling decentralized clinical trials through mobile phlebotomy and national Patient Service Center Network
  • Real-world data licensing 
  • Participant identification and recruitment 

Consult with clinical lab experts to inform protocol design, IRB submission, test selection, specimen collection methods, and other lab-related research decision-making. 

  • Scientific consultation from medical experts 
  • Publication authorship support

Collaborate on research and development of new diagnostic methods, including technical and scientific consultation support in bringing a test to market.

  • Test validation support 
  • CLIA-compliant support to help with assay development and commercialization
  • Licensing/acquisition of intellectual property 

Leverage access to specialized clinical laboratory expertise to help build the next generation of medical and pathology leaders. 

  • Rotations for medical students 
  • Clinical rotations for pathology residents

Overview: Academic medical center solutions

Download our overview of the integrated solutions and services we offer to help.

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Quest's academic profile at a glance 

  • Publications: Quest publishes over 80 peer-reviewed articles per year often in collaboration with researchers across academic institutions
  • Medical education: Quest partners with medical schools on innovative clinical and administrative residency programs to expose students to the advanced technology and unique attributes of a commercial reference lab 
  • Academic expertise: Quest employs 900+ MDs and PhD educated staff, including over 430 pathologists with academic affiliations acrossthe US, supporting clinical rotations and giving lectures at leading universities
  • Clinical trials testing support: In 2024, Quest supported over 130 clinical trials across 33 academic institutions with speciman collection, central lab testing, and data management to support AMC research

Making a difference every single day

3,500+

Clinical tests

1,000+

RUO biomarkers

650+

MDs & PhDs

200M+

Patients per year

Case Study: Advancing Alzheimer's detection through academic and diagnostic collaboration

Discover how Quest Diagnostics and the 1Florida ADRC joined forces to validate a highly accurate, less invasive blood test for Alzheimer's disease.
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Case Study: Advancing multi-cancer risk stratification through clinical and diagnostic collaboration

Learn how Quest Diagnostics and the MD Anderson Cancer Center worked together on a new approach to earlier cancer risk identification with a single blood draw.
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Case Study: Strengthening diagnostic education for the next generation of physicians 

Explore how Quest Diagnostics and Hackensack Meridian Health addressed a critical gap in medical education to better equip the next generation of physicians.
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