MARTINSRIED, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Biomax Informatics AG announces today that it has been selected as a consortium partner in the OncoTyrol project Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, an Austrian COMET-program, which supports building up centers that are based on a top-level research program jointly formulated by science and industry. This €28 million initiative focuses on translating genomic, proteomic and metabolomic research into innovative, individualized and cost-effective approaches for cancer diagnosis and treatment. It aims to achieve three primary goals: (1) to characterize the paradigm malignancies chronic myeloid and lymphocytic leukemia, breast and prostate cancer at the molecular level (2) to identify, verify and validate biomarkers for prediction of individual cancer risk, treatment response and outcome, and (3) to develop tailored therapies for cancer patients or cohorts that are most likely to benefit.
