Advancing Medical Science

As a public-private research partnership of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), The Biomarkers Consortium endeavors to discover, develop, and qualify biological markers (biomarkers) to support new drug development, preventive medicine, and medical diagnostics.  Biomarkers are molecular, biological, or physical characteristics that indicate a specific, underlying physiologic state to identify risk for disease, to make a diagnosis, and to guide treatment.