New York, NY (August 11, 2010) – Clinilabs, a contract research organization that provides early-stage and specialty clinical drug development services to industry, announced today that Dr. Jon Freeman, Director of Neuroscience Research, delivered a presentation to the Division of Personalized Medicine at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The title of the presentation was “The Use of QEEG Biomarkers in Clinical Research: Developments for Personalized Medicine” and focused on the how QEEG is calculated, the state-of-the-art utility of QEEG in differential diagnosis, and how QEEG biomarkers could be applied to the field of personalized medicine.
While EEG data can be applied in many clinical settings, Dr. Freeman emphasized the value of QEEG biomarkers in the study of a number of specialty patient populations, including those who suffer from depression, Alzheimer’s disease, and other psychiatric disorders. He also offered a model for the development of an “EEG Warehouse” that would function in much the same way as the FDA’s ECG warehouse to standardize and centrally store EEG data collected in clinical trials.
According to Dr. Gary Zammit, President & CEO of Clinilabs, “diagnostics are a central focus of clinical research, and the use of biomarkers to classify patients is of increasing interest in specialty clinical trials and the field of personalized medicine”. Zammit also notes that the creation of an EEG warehouse represents “a wonderful opportunity for government, academia, and industry to work together to centralize data that can support the use of EEG as an outcome measure, a safety measure, or a biological marker in clinical trials.
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