Identification and Validation of New Biomarkers to Help the Creation of Clinical Diagnostics in Autoimmune and Cancer Diseases
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Immunology and Immunotherapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 16223
Special Issue Editor
Interests: diagnostics; immunology; biomarkers; autoimmune diseases; infectious diseases; immunotherapy; validation; assay development
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Dear Colleagues,
The identification of biomarkers in patients with immunological diseases, including cancer and autoimmune diseases, is critical to prevent disease progression (stopping disease evolution), predicting the prognosis (correlation between the biomarker and clinical outcomes), targeting the appropriate therapeutic drugs and personalized medicine (response to treatment), and clinical decision-making processes involved in diagnosis and assessment of disease activity (ability to reflect changes in clinical status). Measurement of biomarker proteins and signature protein expression specific to the disease and biological samples (blood and/or tissue) help to understand the mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of these disorders. For cancer, immune-monitoring assays for immunosuppressive factors that prevent an effective antitumor immune response in tumor tissues and peripheral blood are necessary to improve immunotherapy strategies. New assays should be optimized to obtain the optimal accuracy of analyte in various samples (matrix effect and inhibitory agents), as well as an appropriate balance of sensitivity and specificity before being implanted in a clinical diagnostic laboratory. Additional prerequisites of biomarker validation are reliability, accuracy, and reproducibility. However, the validation of an assay measuring biomarker(s) specific to a disease or clinical outcomes is often lacking in products and reagents for biomedical research.
This Special Issue aims to concentrate on and describe the current development of research on new assays to identify and validate new biomarkers to enhance the creation of clinical diagnostics in autoimmune and cancer diseases.
Dr. Veronique Demers-Mathieu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diagnostics
- biomarkers
- autoimmune diseases
- cancers
- immunotherapy
- assay development
- prognostic
- immune-Monitoring
- signature protein expression
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