Nordic Bioscience, a growing biomarker company, announced the strengthening of its ongoing collaboration with Roche Diagnostics for the development of proprietary biomarkers involved in tissue breakdown and build-up.

Under the collaboration, Nordic Bioscience will transfer unique and proprietary blood-based biomarkers to Roche Diagnostics to be implemented on the automated COBAS platform. Nordic Bioscience's ECM biomarkers are unique and essential for all chronic diseases involving tissue fibrosis and inflammation. The collaboration will facilitate better clinical decisions in drug development and patient selection as well as enrichment for precision medicine and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

Nordic Biosciences has a long and successful collaboration with Roche Diagnostics. To date, two biomarkers have been commercialized and implemented on the Roche automated COBAS platform. Nordic Bioscience's fibrogenesis biomarker PRO-C3 has become a commonly used next-generation and noninvasive biomarker to quantify type III collagen formation which is highly relevant for NASH and other fibrotic diseases.

"The collaboration with Roche Diagnostics is an important step for Nordic Bioscience in our efforts to help accelerate drug development. Having our biomarkers on the Roche Diagnostics' platform and our combined capabilities will secure global availability of our best ECM biomarkers. This also adds significant value to Nordic Bioscience offerings as we transform our biomarkers from tools used only in clinical development to globally available diagnostics products," said Morten Karsdal, CEO, Nordic Bioscience.

Nordic Bioscience has a long track record of research in ECM remodeling, which previously has resulted in the transfer of the FDA-approved bone biomarker CTX-I to the Roche COBAS platform. Nordic Bioscience has developed more than 125 ELISA biomarkers focusing on quantifying unique fragments of the ECM. These tools are used in all phases of drug development and for patient selection in various diseases.