The Center for Biomarker Research Online Education
The Center for Biomarker Research offers educational modules concerning blood-based biomarkers and their application in the practice of medicine. These modules are intended for use by clinicians and other interested parties.
Blood-based biomarkers are emerging as one of medicine's significant clinical research tools. The Center for Biomarker Research was established to expand knowledge of the analysis and application of biomarkers in the practice of medicine.
Of Mice and Men, It's all about the phenotype.
Ralph L. McDade, Ph.D.
Rules Based Medicine
Blood based diagnostics is already a billion dollar industry. Physicians today place an enormous amount of emphasis on the results of blood tests. Why? Because everything that happens in your body manifests itself in the blood. Our approach at Rules-Based Medicine is to develop and use large immunoassay testing panels which we call Multi-Analyte Profiles or MAPs to identify these biomarker patterns in blood. These MAPs and their application in diagnostics and drug development are the subject of this presentation.
Serum biomarkers for early detection of Ovarian Cancer
Anna Lokshin, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Ovarian cancer is the fourth most frequent cause of death in women in Europe and the U.S. Currently, only 20% of ovarian cancers are found at the early stage when they are most treatable. A blood test that can detect and reliably discriminate between ovarian cancer and benign pelvic disease would be very valuable. We are using a multiplexed serum assay in order to detect malignant ovarian cancer at the earliest stage and have developed a multi-biomarker screening test that may diagnose ovarian cancer up to 4 years prior to clinical diagnosis.
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