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Advances in Biomarker Discovery and Validation
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Maryam Azimi Mohammadabadi

Maryam Azimi Mohammadabadi

Vincent Center for Reproductive Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Maryam started her job as an assistant professor at the Immunology Research Center at the Iran University of Medical Sciences after earning her PhD in 2018. Her primary work focuses on the immunomodulatory effects of mesenchymal stem cells derived exosomes on tumor progression. She has published almost 30 articles on the topics of immunology and exosomes. She has started her new career as a post-doctorate research fellow; her current research area mainly includes determining whether ovarian cancer stem cells or drug-resistant cells can influence the plasticity of neighboring non-cancer stem cells. Specifically, she will test the hypothesis that exosomes derived from cancer stem cells, or drug-resistant cells, carry a unique payload that can reprogram neighboring cells promoting their drug resistance and/or stemness, allowing them to survive and serve as a seed source for drug-resistant recurrent disease. This program will enable her to build upon her work on cancer stem cells.

Collection Overview

Biomarkers are molecules or parameters that provide critical information about the efficacy of treatments. Essentially, they help follow up on the patient's condition at each stage of the disease. For example, we can detect signs of upcoming disease based on a certain amount of protein in the blood of very high-risk individuals. Biomarkers can be useful in evaluating newly developed drug responses since most molecular-based treatments change specific pathways inside cells. One of the most significant advantages of novel biomarkers is the reduction of clinical trial failures. Biomarkers are used in research to design and create more effective therapies, to assist in identifying which candidates to pursue further, as surrogate markers for selecting patients, and as endpoints for both benefits and hazards. A wide range of biomarkers, such as predictive, prognostic, pharmacodynamic, safety, and efficacy markers, can be monitored. Interestingly, novel biomarkers like proteins, mRNA, and microRNAs can function as routine physiological parameters like blood pressure or body temperature. The molecular biomarkers can be discovered in serum, plasma, and other body fluids or expressed in specific cells or tissues. Exosome-encapsulated molecules that protect against digesting enzymes, resulting in greater stability, are the next generation of molecular biomarkers. Biomarker validation involves measuring their levels in response to a disease, condition, or another parameter that must be statistically significant and recurring. This collection aims to demonstrate standardized protocols for introducing and validating new biomarkers, provide broader access to existing methods, and help researchers interested in working in this field.

Articles

Generating the Transcriptional Regulation View of Transcriptomic Features for Prediction Task and Dark Biomarker Detection on Small Datasets
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Generating the Transcriptional Regulation View of Transcriptomic Features for Prediction Task and Dark Biomarker Detection on Small Datasets

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Abstracts

Computational discovery and validation of transcriptionally dysregulated dark biomarkers

Fengfeng Zhou*1

1Jilin University

Establishment of a 21-color panel for the detection of immune cell subsets in human non-small cell lung cancer tumor tissues with Flow Cytometry

tingting Guo1

1West China Hospital, Sichuan University; Chengdu University of Technology

Biomarkers of Environmental Metal toxins and Lifestyle Factors in Etiology of Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s Disease

Jack Timothy Rogers*1,

Cahill Catherine M1,

Ishiaq Olayinka Omotosho2,

Sanjan Sarang 3,

Rachit Bakshi 1

1Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston,

2University of Ibadan, Nigeria,

3Rice University, Houston, Texas