Prognostic, Predictive & Point-of-Care: Biomarkers from Research to Clinic 2015

Key Topics

• Developing Diagnostics and Therapeutics in CNS Diseases using Biomarkers
• Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases
• Immunology Biomarkers and the Microbiome
• Examination of Prognostic versus Predictive Biomarkers
  • Commercial Impact and Clinical Adoption
  • Algorithms for Prediction and Response
  • Disease Classes Addressed Currently
  • Current Examples in the Clinic and their Impact
• Point-of-Care Diagnostics and Mobile Point-of-Care (mPOC) Diagnostics
  • Technologies for Deployment
  • Biomarkers
• Oncology Biomarkers: Research to Clinical Trajectory
  • Various Cancer Classes such as Breast Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Lung Cancer, GI Cancers
• The Impact of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) on Biomarker Analysis
  • Clinical Applications of RNA-Seq
• R&D Pipeline of Markers with Associated Therapeutics
• Various Classes of Biomarkers: Protein, Gene-Expression, microRNA, Epigenetic