In-Depth Diagnostics

In-Depth Diagnostics (IDD) is a non-profit organization founded by Plavi Mittal and located in Bellevue, Washington. Its mission is to improve care for patients with rare diseases by providing them with a genomic diagnosis. In-Depth Diagnostics funds whole-genome sequencing for patients with rare, undiagnosed diseases.
History
In-Depth Diagnostics was founded in 2016 after Plavi Mittal left the Jain Foundation.. In-Depth Diagnostics is a continuation of the Jain Foundation's mission. In 2014, the Jain Foundation, along with a consortium of other LGMD foundations, started a program to offer free genetic testing to provide a diagnosis to patients with muscle weakness. The success of this program, revealed a broader need for genetic diagnoses, and Mittal started IDD in order to address that need. The plummeting cost of genomic sequencing allowed IDD to provide whole genome sequencing for free.
Program
Currently, all patients of any age in the U.S. are eligible to apply for In-Depth Diagnostic’s sequencing program, whose fields of study include genetics, neurology, neuromuscular disorders, and more. They include Matthew Wicklund, Matthew Harms, Chamindra Konersman, Alice Whittemore, and Madhuri Hegde, who also completed dysferlinopathy research for the Jain Foundation. Hegde, a geneticist, and Wicklund, a neurologist, also worked on the Jain Foundation's genetic testing project with Mittal.

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