University of Louisville Start-Up, LBIdx™, Teams Up with the James Graham Brown Cancer Center to Confirm Effective Blood Test as Improved Cancer Monitoring Tool
Louisville, KY, August 08, 2013 --(PR.com)-- In collaboration with the James Graham Brown Cancer Center at the University of Louisville, LBIdx™ is advancing a breakthrough blood test, the Plasma Thermogram™ (pT™). Based on a simple blood draw, researchers at LBIdx™ and the Brown Cancer Center see great promise for the pT™ test as a “game-changer” allowing physicians to monitor cancer patients more closely. Monitoring is a critical part of cancer treatment and provides physicians with vital information in the fight against cancer.
LBIdx™ and the Brown Cancer Center are initiating a clinical study that will demonstrate the pT™ test’s capabilities for improved monitoring of melanoma patients at dangerous risk of metastasis and for response to medical treatment. Director Donald Miller M.D., Ph.D. and Deputy Director Jason A. Chesney, M.D., Ph.D., will be co-investigators of the planned study to detect earlier signs of change in disease status. Researchers expect the pT™ will lead to improved medical response options, including therapy. Equally important, this test stands to be an earlier indicator for remission or relapse. In all, the test stands to help answer those age-old questions, “Am I winning my battle with cancer?” and “Is my cancer gone?”
Current medical practice frequently relies on medical imaging procedures, like CT scans, to monitor melanoma patients. But due to the high dose radiation received from each procedure, physicians are limited in their use, which can hinder patient monitoring. In addition, the FDA is striving to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from these medical imaging procedures which are the greatest contributors to total radiation exposure within the U.S.
Alfred “Ben” Jenson, Professor of Vaccinology at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center and co-inventor of the pT™ has been a strong supporter of the pT™’s disease monitoring potential. Ben is also known for his work as co-inventor of the cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, and sees potential for the pT™ as a monitoring tool for a multitude of cancers, including difficult-to-detect oral cancers.
LBIdx™ is a University of Louisville start-up company, formed to help make this new diagnostic tool a clinical reality. It is currently raising funds via a crowd funding campaign allowing the public, who will benefit from such a test, to support this enhanced cancer monitoring effort. Crowd funding is a relatively new concept approved by the U.S. Jobs Act of 2012. Details of their 'Breakthrough in Cancer Detection & Monitoring' campaign can be found on the Indiegogo crowd funding website using the following short link, igg.me/at/CancerDetectionStudy.
About Louisville Bioscience, Inc.
LBIdx™, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is a University of Louisville start-up company, formed to help bring a new breakthrough in cancer diagnostics to clinical reality. They are commercializing an effective blood test as a prognostic indicator of cancer remission, for response-to-therapy and detection of recurrence for numerous cancers including: Melanoma, multiple myeloma, ovarian, cervical, breast and lung cancers. The Plasma Thermogram™ (pT™) technology is a robust diagnostic platform utilizing Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) to generate a temperature-induced melting profile of the major blood proteins. The LBIdx™ core technology was invented by the University of Louisville team of Dr. Jonathan Chaires (James Graham Brown Endowed Chair of Cancer Biophysics), Dr. Nichola Garbett and Dr. Alfred “Ben” Jenson. For more information, please visit www.lbidx.com
“Breakthrough in Cancer Detection & Monitoring”
Indiegogo Campaign Short Link: igg.me/at/CancerDetectionStudy
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LBIdx™ and the Brown Cancer Center are initiating a clinical study that will demonstrate the pT™ test’s capabilities for improved monitoring of melanoma patients at dangerous risk of metastasis and for response to medical treatment. Director Donald Miller M.D., Ph.D. and Deputy Director Jason A. Chesney, M.D., Ph.D., will be co-investigators of the planned study to detect earlier signs of change in disease status. Researchers expect the pT™ will lead to improved medical response options, including therapy. Equally important, this test stands to be an earlier indicator for remission or relapse. In all, the test stands to help answer those age-old questions, “Am I winning my battle with cancer?” and “Is my cancer gone?”
Current medical practice frequently relies on medical imaging procedures, like CT scans, to monitor melanoma patients. But due to the high dose radiation received from each procedure, physicians are limited in their use, which can hinder patient monitoring. In addition, the FDA is striving to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from these medical imaging procedures which are the greatest contributors to total radiation exposure within the U.S.
Alfred “Ben” Jenson, Professor of Vaccinology at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center and co-inventor of the pT™ has been a strong supporter of the pT™’s disease monitoring potential. Ben is also known for his work as co-inventor of the cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, and sees potential for the pT™ as a monitoring tool for a multitude of cancers, including difficult-to-detect oral cancers.
LBIdx™ is a University of Louisville start-up company, formed to help make this new diagnostic tool a clinical reality. It is currently raising funds via a crowd funding campaign allowing the public, who will benefit from such a test, to support this enhanced cancer monitoring effort. Crowd funding is a relatively new concept approved by the U.S. Jobs Act of 2012. Details of their 'Breakthrough in Cancer Detection & Monitoring' campaign can be found on the Indiegogo crowd funding website using the following short link, igg.me/at/CancerDetectionStudy.
About Louisville Bioscience, Inc.
LBIdx™, headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is a University of Louisville start-up company, formed to help bring a new breakthrough in cancer diagnostics to clinical reality. They are commercializing an effective blood test as a prognostic indicator of cancer remission, for response-to-therapy and detection of recurrence for numerous cancers including: Melanoma, multiple myeloma, ovarian, cervical, breast and lung cancers. The Plasma Thermogram™ (pT™) technology is a robust diagnostic platform utilizing Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) to generate a temperature-induced melting profile of the major blood proteins. The LBIdx™ core technology was invented by the University of Louisville team of Dr. Jonathan Chaires (James Graham Brown Endowed Chair of Cancer Biophysics), Dr. Nichola Garbett and Dr. Alfred “Ben” Jenson. For more information, please visit www.lbidx.com
“Breakthrough in Cancer Detection & Monitoring”
Indiegogo Campaign Short Link: igg.me/at/CancerDetectionStudy
https://www.facebook.com/LBIdx
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Michael Birdsell
502.414.1243
www.lbidx.com
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