Almac launches biomarkers for biopharma

13 August 2010

Almac has launched a range of biomarkers for the biopharma industry. The use of biomarkers enables biopharma companies to better understand their drug, improve their drug’s success rate, improve the drug’s value and ultimately maximise their drug’s potential.

Biomarkers can add substantial value to a compound in development and the ability to identify those patients most likely to respond to a therapy greatly increases the chances of success and the licensing potential of the drug.

Biomarkers for biopharma solutions include pharmacodynamic solutions, patient selection markers, assay development and bioinformatics / biostatistics consultancy.

President and Managing Director of Almac’s Diagnostics division, Professor Paul Harkin said: “With biomarkers for biopharma, we have combined a range of key solutions which are ideally suited to growing biopharma companies. For these companies, it is of critical importance that they maximise the potential success of the drugs in their pipeline and the incorporation of a biomarker strategy enables them to do this.”