Washington University School of Medicine gains access to firm’s biomarker detection platform, and Singulex gets NCI contract to work on assays related to cancer treatments.

Singulex reports two collaborations to advance biomarker assay development for use in R&D. The company is partnering with Washington University School of Medicine to increase the clinical utility of validated and recently discovered biomarkers. Separately, Singulex received a $900,000 phase 1/2 fast track SBIR contract from the NCI to develop assays to predict patient response to and efficacy of cancer drugs in development.


In the first alliance, the aim is to develop biomarker assays in disease areas such as breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, and stroke. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine will join Singulex’ Erenna™ Technology Access Program. They will thus have access to Erenna, the company’s first biomarker detection platform.


Under the NCI grant, Singulex will work with researchers at Washington Univ. and Sigma Aldrich to develop assays that measure the efficacy and patient response of anticancer drug candidates in the early stages of development. Singulex will use biological samples from the university and optimized reagents from Sigma Aldrich to develop assays to detect expression level changes for a panel of proteins associated with the growth of many cancers.

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