11^th Annual Biomarkers and Clinical Research Congress

Biomarkers: Validation & Verification

Biomarker discovery requires high confidence identification of biomarker candidates with simultaneous quantitation information to indicate which proteins are changing to a statistically relevant degree in response to disease. Because of normal clinical or biological variability, candidate biomarkers identified in the discovery stage need to be validated across a large number of samples. The challenge is to develop a fast, targeted analysis method capable of analysing as many identified candidates as possible in minimally hundreds and potentially even thousands of samples.