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Conference Recap – Biomarker World Congress 2011

  Everywhere in the news today, we hear that we are in the era of personalized medicine – where new medicines will be tailor-made for individual patients.  Specifically, personalized medicine is dedicated to the concept hat the right drug is … Continue reading

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Biomarker Qualification and Validation: Where are We Now?

Personalized medicine.  The pinnacle of healthcare where treatment for a patient’s disease is specifically tailored for his or her genetics and disease characteristics.  As the era of blockbuster drugs is drawing to a close, the era of personalized medicines is … Continue reading

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Important Steps Forward for Early Detection and Diagnose of Alzheimer’s Disease

Image via Wikipedia In a recent report by Geert De Meyer of Ghent University in Belgium and colleagues, titled “Diagnosis-Independent Alzheimer Disease Biomarker Signature in Cognitively Normal Elderly People” (Arch Neurol. 2010;67(8):949-956) it was demonstrated that measuring certain proteins in … Continue reading

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Joint Statistical Meetings 2010 Retrospective: A CRO Statistician’s Perspective

Image via Wikipedia The Joint Statistical Meetings is often a good place to learn about emerging issues in the analysis of clinical trials (and all of the other fields that statistics touches, as a matter of fact). Here are just a … Continue reading

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DIA 2010 – Week in Review

The DIA 2010 Annual Meeting was a great success and Washington, DC was a great location.  In addition to the thousands of industry attendees, the location made it possible for this year’s meeting to include FDA representatives from all areas … Continue reading

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