Sentences with phrase «potential predictive biomarkers»

As a Genentech spokesperson told me at the time: «Despite looking at hundreds of potential predictive biomarkers, we do not currently have a way to predict who is most likely to respond to Avastin and who is not.»

In efforts to enhance pre-clinical drug testing, Thomas Gaddy of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and colleagues in the research group of Professor Stacey Finley investigated a potential predictive biomarker for a type of cancer drug known as anti-angiogenic therapy.

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The team's next avenue of research will be focused on identifying a «biomarker» that can identify this distinct suppressive cell elsewhere in the body — for example, in blood or other samples — as a potential predictive clinical tool to determine when these cells are present in patients, which currently can not be done.

The overall goal of this study is to improve knowledge of the mechanism of HPV carcinogenesis and discover potential biomarkers in the vaginal microbiome predictive or protective of persistent HPV infection through interrogation of vaginal microbiota in a well phenotyped, homogenous cohort of Asian women.