This team aims to increase the understanding of chronic pain mechanisms, help to develop novel analgesics, and develop better biomarkers for pain. (imieuropain.org)
The principal measure of efficacy is called Area Under the Curve (AUC), a measure of how well biomarkers identify true cases of disease (sensitivity) while avoiding false positives (specificity). (sciencedaily.com)
«It becomes a circular argument until we get better biomarkers.» (scientificamerican.com)