Reference Medicine

06/01/2026

Make your wish 🎂

Our birthday = your chance to save:
Up to 20% off cases
+ 10% off genomically-screened samples

June 1–30. Let’s get to work.

05/30/2026

🔬 We’re live at !

If you’re attending ASCO, stop by the Innovation Hub and visit the Reference Medicine team at Booth IH16. We’d love to connect and discuss how we’re helping biopharma and diagnostic developers accelerate research with high-quality oncology biospecimens, matched sample sets, and molecularly characterized cohorts.

Whether you’re validating an assay, developing a diagnostic, or advancing a therapeutic program, we’re here to help make specimen sourcing a little easier.

📍 Innovation Hub – Booth IH16
👋 Come say hello to the team!

Inga Rose Aaron Schlum Mario Melendez

05/28/2026

Reference Medicine has been named a finalist in the Phoenix Business Journal's Small Business Awards, highlighting its continued growth and contributions to the life sciences ecosystem in Phoenix. Our model - built by scientists, for scientists - continues to streamline biospecimen procurement and support faster, more efficient research.

https://www.referencemedicine.com/news/oncology-specimen-provider-reference-medicine-named-as-finalist-for-phoenix-business-journals-small-business-awards

05/27/2026

We expected Stupid Cancer's CancerCon to be impactful. We didn’t expect it to change how we see our work.

We watched strangers become support systems. We saw people let their guard down in ways that can only happen when they feel truly understood.

And we were reminded - powerfully - that every biospecimen represents a person, a story, and a hope for something better.

This experience stayed with us. We wrote about it here:

🔗 More Than a Sample: What CancerCon Taught Us About Listening to Patients:

The Reference Medicine Team reflects on CancerCon and the lasting impact it will have on each of them moving forward.

05/26/2026

Our research, done in collaboration with the University of Qatar, is now available online for the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting! Check out the link below to read the full text of Vranic's abstract, "Prevalence and clinical significance of AR-V7 in extra-prostatic malignancies: A systematic review."

https://www.asco.org/abstracts-presentations/264600/abstract

05/21/2026

What do axe-throwing, escape rooms, and taco trucks have in common? Being a part of another successful Reference Medicine on-site, of course! Last week was filled with collaboration, camaraderie, and some Mario Kart. It's the moments all together that remind us how amazing Team Science is!

05/13/2026

We're headed to the 2026 ASCO® Annual Meeting! Swing by the Innovation Hall to meet our team and learn more about how we're connecting patient donations to the next oncology diagnostic.

05/12/2026

We're always proud of the consistent, quality results our specimens yield. But the lesser discussed benefit of our ready-to-ship specimens? The fact that you can quickly and deliberately make decisions to move your research forward today - not in weeks or months.

Check out our inventory and see how we can help accelerate your research: https://www.referencemedicine.com/inventory

05/08/2026

News article alert! 📰 CEO Inga Rose was featured in Life Science Daily News speaking on the necessity of turning oncology diagnostic innovations into clinical applications faster. When it comes to preventing and treating cancer, especially recurrences, time is always of the essence.

Read more here: https://www.referencemedicine.com/news/why-innovation-in-oncology-diagnostics-is-an-imperative-we-must-prioritize

https://lifesciencedaily.news/why-innovation-in-oncology-diagnostics-is-an-imperative-we-must-prioritize/

05/06/2026

Meet Jonathan 👋

Our newest Software Engineer, automation enthusiast, and firm believer that the best systems are the ones that make work… disappear.

He’s already helping us build smarter workflows that reduce manual lift, improve quality, and make life better for the humans behind the science.

Also - yes, he can actually juggle. Because of course he can.

Welcome to the team, Jonathan! We’re lucky to have you.