Protein biomarker discovery & development

Accelerating Biomarker Research Through Robust Immuno-based Proteomics

Reliable biomarkers are essential for  early disease detection, patient stratification, and treatment monitoring. Among biomarker types, proteins offer significant advantages, enabling cost-efficient and high-throughput measurements often within minutes using standard immuno-assays or lateral flow devices. Sciomics is a leading Biomarker CRO dedicated to advancing protein biomarker research for precison medicine. We provide a comprehensive and reproducible approach to biomarker discovery and validation utilizing our scioDiscover platform. Our expertise assists researchers across diverse fields, ensuring the generation of robust and clinically relevant results.

Enabling reliable & translational Biomarker Discovery

Our scioDiscover platform ensures:

  • Robust Data: Ensure data reliability and high reproducibility with four technical replicates per target protein and sample.
  • Broad Coverage: Unmatched multiplexing and sensitivity for diverse, complex samples.
  • Effortless translation: Seamless integration into diagnostic assays and lab tests due to immuno-based methodology..
With these benefits, Sciomics is your ideal partner for biomarker discovery and development.
Sciomics supports the discovery and development of a variety of different protein biomarker types such as drug response markers, stratification markers, CDx markers, prognostic biomarkers or diagnostic biomarkers.

Our track record in biomarker discovery

We have performed successful biomarker studies in diverse research areas, including:

  • Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)
  • Assessing Dengue Fever Severity
  • Neurodegenerative Diseases (Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s)
  • MCDS (Metaphyseal Chondrodysplasia, Schmid Type)
  • COVID-19 disease severity
  • Endometrial Cancer
  • Endometriosis
  • Infectious Diseases

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Comprehensive Scientific Support for Protein Biomarker Discovery & Development

 We offer tailored expert guidance throughout the entire process, from study design and protein analysis to data interpretation and biomarker validation. Choose Sciomics as your preferred Biomarker CRO for development projects. 

Sciomics supports your protein biomarker development project via the steps study design, sample selection, sample analysis, data analysis, data interpretation as well as validation.

1. Study design:  Our experts help perfect your experimental biomarker study setup, sample, and control selection for robust, meaningful results.

2. Sample selection: We analyze diverse sample types (plasma, serum, urine, CSF, ISF, PBMC, tissue, cells, etc.), requiring minimal input amounts.

3. Sample analysis: Our experts process your samples from protein extraction to incubation, delivering results quickly (within few weeks).

4. Data analysis: Comprehensive bioinformatics and machine learning provide actionable insights, ROC-curves, and robust, interpretable biomarker panels for routine testing.

5. Data interpretation: Detailed reports and guidance to support your validation and follow-up strategies.

6. Validation:  Our antibody platform facilitates easy transfer to standard immuno-assays, accelerating validation and diagnostic assay development. 

 

Biomarker discovery based on our antibody-based discovery platform ensures a straight-forward translation into other immuno-assays for validation, accelerating and de-risking the development of diagnostic assays. 

 

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Validating scioDiscover Biomarkers: Proven Success

Direct Validation: Easily confirm scioDiscover findings using common immuno-assays like ELISA.

Accelerated Implementation: Speed up the journey from biomarker discovery to clinical use and diagnostics.

Exceptional Correlation: Strong agreement (Pearson’s r > 0.9) between discovery and validation data.

 

Correlation of r > 0.9 for data generated by the scioDiscover platform and biomarker measurement in a routine clinical laboratory

An immunobased discovery approach for protein biomarkers enables an easy translation to other immunobased platforms such as ELISA for validation.

 

Selected projects with external validation

Roche: Validated two biomarkers using their Elecsys platform ( poster)

AbbVie: Confirmed biomarkers from a small cohort on an internal platform (paper)

University Hospital Heidelberg: Validated CRP in their clinical laboratory; additional marker confirmed by ELISA in our lab (paper)

Hannover Medical School: Validation of tissue proteomics/phosphoproteomics in a mouse model by Western Blotting (paper)

Charité: Verified phosphorylation state via Western blot/IHC in a tissue study (paper)

Scientific articles utilizing scioDiscover

Article | Exploration of Novel Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Diseases

| December 2024 | Biomarker candidates for neurodegenerative diseases were identified by combining an exploratory proteomic approach with quantitative ligand-binding assays. Sciomics supported this study by proteomic screening of plasma and CSF samples of patients with different neurodegenerative diseases using the scioDiscover microarray platform.

Kenzelmann A, et al.. Exploration of Novel Biomarkers for Neurodegenerative Diseases Using Proteomic Analysis and Ligand-Binding Assays. Biomedicines. 2024;12(12):2794.  

Article | Vago-splenic signal transduction of cardioprotection in humans

| April 2024 | The spleen as a relay organ as well as the vagal innervation determine cardioprotective signal transduction of Remote Ischaemic Conditioning (RIC) and Auricular Tragus Stimulation (ATS). Sciomics contributed to this study by analysing plasma-dialysate samples using the scioDiscover microarray platform.

Lieder HR, Paket U, Skyschally A, et al. Vago-splenic signal transduction of cardioprotection in humans. Eur Heart J. 2024;45(34):3164-3177. 

Article | Predicting a severe Covid-19 disease

| April 2023 | New Article: In a protein biomarker development project initiated by Sciomics, we have identified protein biomarker panels predicting development of a severe Covid.19  disease.

Hufnagel K., Fathi A. et al. Discovery and systematic assessment of early biomarkers that predict progression to severe COVID-19 disease. Communications Medicine 3,51 (2023)

Article | Microbiota influences chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer

| February 2023 | New Article: In the study Tintelnot et al. identified a microbiota-derived metabolite that has clinical implications in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Sciomics supported the authors by a protein profiling study of tumours derived from a mouse model upon treatment with 3-IAA and Firinox.

Tintelnot et al. Microbiota-derived 3-IAA influences chemotherapy efficacy in pancreatic cancer. Nature 615, 168-174 (2023)

Article | Cycle-dependent biomarkers in endometriosis

| May 2022 | In a study by Maja Pušić et al. Cycle-dependent plasma protein biomarkers for peritoneal endometriosis were identified by our scioDiscover platform.

Pušić, M. et al. Antibody Arrays Identified Cycle-Dependent Plasma Biomarker Candidates of Peritoneal Endometriosis. J. Pers. Med. 202212, 852.

What clients say about scioDiscover

Tara Sigdel, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco

"We collaborated with Sciomics GmbH in Germany to analyze proteomics data from blood samples of kidney transplant recipients and liver perfusates during normothermic machine perfusion. Throughout the process, Sciomics provided exceptional support, ensuring timely data delivery and valuable assistance with data analysis. Their expertise and commitment have been instrumental in advancing our research, and we are currently using their data in multiple manuscript submissions. I highly recommend Sciomics for their reliable service and expertise in proteomics."

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Dr. Anke König

Clinics for dermatology, venerology and allergology, University Clinics Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

"We enjoyed working with Sciomics on various research projects related to inflammatory skin diseases. The cooperation with Sciomics was just excellent. In addition to processing the samples and compiling the data in a perfectly understandable way, Sciomics GmbH supports us with the entire interpretation and presentation of our results with lots of ideas beyond the usual level of corporate performance. We are looking forward to developing new ideas for further clinical studies together."

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José Pedro Castro, PhD

German Instiute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany

"I am more than pleased to recommend Sciomics Antibody Microarray analysis service. We used it to compare differentiating from non-differentiating cells and it was a precious help which allowed us to understand the different phenotypes. The results were sent fast and ready to publish ! Their availability to clarify doubts was simply outstanding. Christoph, Ronny and their team are well prepared to assist in designing the experiments in order to get the maximum of the array. If I hit a road block in my experiments, I am sure that their services will help me go through."

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scioCyto : Cytokine Profiling

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