New Corporate Alliances & Conferences
BioMark is actively pursuing international business and research collaborations to increase its global footprint. North America N. America is a critical market for technology development and commercial acceleration. BioMark is in discussions with 4 potential companies located in Boston, Maryland, San Diego and San Francisco. Both the East and West coast corridors are important centres […]
BioMark News Summary 2007 – 2012
Clinical Trial and Gene Expression Ethics Approval BioMark has received conditional approval from the University of Manitoba and CancerCare Manitoba for 2 studies that will commence shortly. The studies involve phase III clinical trial and SSAT Gene Expression in patient derived tumour biopsy. BioMark will be working with Manitoba Tumour Bank in regards to the […]
BioMark is proud to announce
NRC – IRAP Funding for 2013 – BioMark will be funded generously by NRC with emphasis on developing prototypes for cancer screening kits using antibodies generated at UBC and IR Raman based technologies currently being developed at UVic.Both systems are targeted for use when the trials are completed at CancerCare Manitoba in 2013. Engage Grant […]
BioMark and Going Global (Spring 2013)
Going Global completed two visits to China and signed a collaboration agreement with Dr. Liu and his team. The collaboration includes use of BioMark’s detection system for China’s national cancer screening program and the downstream development initiatives. Dr. Liu’s team includes lab specialist, pharmacologists, medical institute development experts and screening specialists. BioMark and Manitoba Tumor […]
Key Milestones Achieved in 2013 2H (Second Half)
– BioMark successfully generated 3 monoclonal antibody against the molecule of interest. This is a major accomplishment for BioMark since success rates for generation of small molecule antibody is not a common. BioMark would like to acknowledge all the work performed by the group at UBC, Immuno Precise and its technical / scientific team. “We […]
Collaboration and MITACs Support
MITACS Accelerate Program – BioMark has applied for 3 major programs under Mitacs at UBC and UVic. Mitacs Accelerate is Canada’s premiere research internship program. It connects companies with over 50 research-based universities through graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, who apply their specialized expertise to business research challenges. Interns transfer their skills from theory to […]
New Discovery
BioMark has recently completed a very encouraging metabolome study that has implication for biomarker signature related to cancer diagnosis. The discovery is being patented.
Clinical Trials – Multi Site
BioMark is proud to partner and cooperate with National Cancer Institute in Bangladesh and BioMark China in a phase III multi site trial. The trail will involve over 400 subjects and will focus on 4 cancer indications. All the procedures will follow North American regulatory guidelines that were prepared by Saint Boniface Research centre’s regulatory […]
Scientific Presentations and Publications
ACS on Campus – A panel discussion on Entrepreneurship Date: April 2/3, at UBC. ACS: American Chemical Society Rashid CEO from BioMark discussing at UBC Campus recently the opportunities and challenges of entrepuership in Canada Presentations will be made at CancerCare Manitoba by Drs. Maksymiuk, Tappia and Sitar. Presentations will be made to physicians and […]
Commercialization and Prototype Development
Elisa Kit Development – BioMark has successfully developed Elisa kits using antibodies generated at UBC’s Biomedical Research Centre by Dr. Schrader and his team. The kits were developed under CLSI specifications and are under key customer test site. Double blinded study was also designed to ensure the reliability of the test kits Point Of Care […]
