Optimum Biotech

If you run an academic lab and think biomarker verification or validation services are just for pharmaceutical and biotech industry, think again. Optimum Biotech is proud to provide affordable biomarker contract services, and we offer big discounts to our academic partners.

Many biomarker discovery projects are conducted in cultured cells or small number of clinical specimen (tissues or body fluid such as plasma, serum, or urine). Verification and validation of these potential biomarkers in large clinical sample sets is a daunting task. Using antibody based technologies (ELISA, Western blot, etc), Optimum Biotech’s biomarker services covers the whole verification/validation process, from clinical sample collection to biomarker assays.

We work with our partners in the following steps:
Step 1: Project Planning
Set up project scope, sample requirements, antibodies/ELISA kits needed, timeline, and cost.
Step 2: Sample Collection and Assay Development
Conduct sample collection and assay development. For major diseases such as various types of cancer, the time for sample collection is about 2 months. Assay development time varies depends on availability of ELISA kits. Our customers have the right to review sample collection and assay development status any time.
Step 3: Biomarker Verification/Validation Assays
Upon our customer’s final approval, assays will be completed in 1-2 weeks (depend on sample size). Final datasets are delivered electronically.

So if you use mass spec to discover biomarkers, you don’t have to be an expert in antibody based assays, spend time to acquire clinical samples and expensive instruments, or train your graduate students or post-docs, but still can have your biomarker verified/validated in 2-3 months.

We have many academic customers and we know your research funding is precious, so we will make this service well affordable to you. Please contact us for further details.