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Proteomics is striving for regulatory approval of its simple, low-cost blood test for chronic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes. Using a unique protein "fingerprint", the PromarkerD test can predict the onset of diabetic kidney disease up to four years before symptoms arise with 86 per cent accuracy.
The test has received a CE Mark in Europe and this month the company sent a pre-submission package to the US Food and Drug Administration in advance of a meeting on possible approval.
Proteomics has clinical trials to validate the test that are due probably around the end of March, and is deep in discussions about getting a US manufacturing partner to help the scale-up of their test kits, McNamee said.
Identifying what diabetic patients are at risk of kidney failure opens up a lot of commercial possibilities for large pharmaceutical companies, McNamee said.
The know-how Proteomics developed in working on biomarkers for this test kit should help them as they develop biomarkers for tests for other conditions such as endometriosis, he said.
Proteomics is striving for regulatory approval of its simple, low-cost blood test for chronic kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes. Using a unique protein "fingerprint", the PromarkerD test can predict the onset of diabetic kidney disease up to four years before symptoms arise with 86 per cent accuracy.
The test has received a CE Mark in Europe and this month the company sent a pre-submission package to the US Food and Drug Administration in advance of a meeting on possible approval.
They are in a similar boat, we think they have de-risked the health, it has taken them 20 years to get them to the point where they've got a scalable test kit where the three biomarkers line up," David McNamee of Altor Capital said.
And we feel like they're cusp of commercialising that technology that has been validated by one of the largest pharma groups in the world, by integrating all their clinical data, McNamee said, referring to Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
Proteomics has clinical trials to validate the test that are due probably around the end of March, and is deep in discussions about getting a US manufacturing partner to help the scale-up of their test kits, McNamee said.
Identifying what diabetic patients are at risk of kidney failure opens up a lot of commercial possibilities for large pharmaceutical companies, McNamee said.
The know-how Proteomics developed in working on biomarkers for this test kit should help them as they develop biomarkers for tests for other conditions such as endometriosis, he said.
So we like that one, there are a lot of catalysts we feel for this year, he said.