The support of the sponsors of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health was crucial to the planning and conduct of the workshop Evidence for Clinical Utility of Molecular Diagnostics in Oncology and the development of the workshop summary report titled Genome-Based Diagnostics: Demonstrating Clinical Utility in Oncology. Federal sponsors are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Department of the Air Force; Department of Veterans Affairs; Health Resources and Services Administration; National Cancer Institute; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Human Genome Research Institute; National Institute of Mental Health; National Institute of Nursing Research; National Institute on Aging; and Office of Rare Diseases Research. Nonfederal sponsorship was provided by the American Academy of Nursing; American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics; American Heart Association; American Medical Association; American Society of Human Genetics; Association for Molecular Pathology; Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association; College of American Pathologists; Eli Lilly and Company; Genetic Alliance; International Society for Cardiovascular Translational Research; Johnson & Johnson; The Kaiser Permanente Program Offices Community Benefit II at the East Bay Community Foundation; Life Technologies; National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics; National Society of Genetic Counselors; Northrop Grumman Health IT; Pfizer Inc.; and PhRMA.

The Roundtable would like to thank Sean Tunis and the Center for Medical Technology Policy staff for their support and partnership in bringing about the success of this workshop. The Roundtable would also like to thank the members of the planning committee for their work in developing an outstanding workshop agenda. The Roundtable also wishes to express its gratitude to the expert speakers whose presentations helped outline the challenges in developing clinical utility data for molecular diagnostics. The project director would like to thank the project staff who worked diligently to develop both the workshop and the resulting summary.