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Ph.D.</a></span></span><span class="posted-on"><span class="text-on">updated on </span><a href="https://ddblog.labcorp.com/2018/03/exploring-new-opportunities-biomarkers-immuno-oncology/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2021-06-07T10:51:46-04:00" itemprop="dateModified">Monday, June 7, 2021</time><time class="updated" datetime="2018-03-27T09:00:19-04:00" itemprop="datePublished">Tuesday, March 27, 2018</time></a></span></div><!-- .entry-meta --> </header><!-- .entry-header home--> <div class="entry-content" itemprop="text"> <p>Pharmaceutical companies are increasingly relying on biomarkers to deliver precision medicine in immuno-oncology. Biomarkers can accelerate drug development and reduce the overall cost; they also allow sponsors to identify failed treatments sooner so that resources are not wasted on expensive, late-stage trials with unsafe or inactive compounds. 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Finding and enrolling the appropriate patients for these potentially revolutionary treatments has presented a profound challenge, one that was recently covered in the aptly titled New York Times … </p> </div><!-- .entry-content --> <footer class="entry-footer"> </footer><!-- .entry-footer home--> </div><!-- .text-holder --> </article><!-- #post-3518 --> <article id="post-3044" class="post-3044 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-cell-gene-therapies category-drug-development category-oncology category-preclinical-nonclinical tag-biomarkers tag-clinical-trials tag-companion-diagnostics tag-immunotherapeutic-development tag-oncology tag-precision-medicine latest_post" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Blog"> <a href="https://ddblog.labcorp.com/2017/02/precision-medicine-in-immuno-oncology/" class="post-thumbnail"><img width="450" height="300" 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