Rational Therapeutics
Hospital & Health CareCalifornia, United States0-1 Employees
Rational Therapeutics is a Long Beach-based clinical laboratory focused on personalizing cancer treatment through functional testing of living tumor cells. Founded in 1995 by Dr. Robert Nagourney, the company has developed the Ex Vivo Analysis of Programmed Cell Death (EVA-PCD) assay, which analyzes tumor biology to identify therapies that prompt cancer cells to die, enabling patients and their doctors to select treatments with greater potential effectiveness and lower toxicity. The firm serves individual patients as well as pharmaceutical companies by testing a range of human tumor types to determine drug efficacy, with samples arriving from around the world and requiring timely processing. Rational Therapeutics is uniquely positioned in the cancer care landscape as the only cancer testing laboratory with an onsite practicing hematologist/oncologist who provides clinical consultations to help interpret results. The organization operates as a licensed laboratory and maintains clinical and research activities to support personalized treatment decisions in oncology.