Announcements

FDA Approves Biomarker Qualification Plan for the First Surrogate Endpoint in Anti-Osteoporosis Drug Trials

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) announces that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Biomarkers Qualification Program accepted a qualification plan to use the treatment-related change in bone mineral density (BMD) as a surrogate endpoint for fractures in future trials of new anti-osteoporosis drugs.

FNIH Biomarkers Consortium Project Will Establish New Methods for Detecting Disease in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) Biomarkers Consortium (BC) has launched a project to validate new methods of detecting and quantifying the small amount of cancer cells remaining in the body following anti-cancer therapy, or measurable residual disease (MRD), in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

FNIH Biomarkers Consortium Confirms Blood Tests Provide a Key Research Tool for Measuring Amyloid Accumulation in Alzheimer’s Disease

North Bethesda, MD, July 26, 2021—The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) Biomarkers Consortium (BC) has evaluated several blood tests that can detect one of the known characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease (AD).