No Single Pharma Model For Commercialization of Biomarkers (View from a Companion Diagnostics Company)

Richard Kennedy of Almac Diagnostics and Queen's University, Belfast writes that in his experience there is no one route to market for biomarkers in the personalized medicine space. Each pharmaceutical and diagnostic company has its own preferred model and, by focusing on companion diagnostic assays that will be used for the registration of a drug, their approaches can be broadly summarized in three models.|Richard Kennedy of Almac Diagnostics and Queen's University, Belfast writes that in his experience there is no one route to market for biomarkers in the personalized medicine space. Each pharmaceutical and diagnostic company has its own preferred model and, by focusing on companion diagnostic assays that will be used for the registration of a drug, their approaches can be broadly summarized in three models.|Richard Kennedy of Almac Diagnostics and Queen's University, Belfast writes that in his experience there is no one route to market for biomarkers in the personalized medicine space. Each pharmaceutical and diagnostic company has its own preferred model and, by focusing on companion diagnostic assays that will be used for the registration of a drug, their approaches can be broadly summarized in three models.|Richard Kennedy of Almac Diagnostics and Queen's University, Belfast writes that in his experience there is no one route to market for biomarkers in the personalized medicine space. Each pharmaceutical and diagnostic company has its own preferred model and, by focusing on companion diagnostic assays that will be used for the registration of a drug, their approaches can be broadly summarized in three models.