Please share more details about the technology that has been transferred by Olink to NUS? What is so unique about it? Has the technology been transferred to other Asian countries as well?

The importance of proteomics is well understood, as proteins mirror our health and disease status, and are therefore the perfect biomarker candidates for many different applications. There is a strong unmet need to study proteins, as they also provide the most actionable options for therapeutic interventions - they are the targets of most current drugs. However, technological challenges have prevented the performance of large-scale studies, especially with the low-concentration part of the proteome. Olink Proximity Extension Assay (PEA) has made this possible with its unique, proven, scalable technology capable of measuring thousands of proteins together or one single protein with the same quality, in small volumes of biological samples, such as a few microliters of blood. It is a game-changer. The Olink platforms for advanced protein biomarker research range from high-plex, high throughput discovery to more targeted biomarker studies.

 The technology allows protein biomarker studies to be run that were not possible a few of years go. Producing a lot of data, with trusted quality, fast and affordable, Olink was previously selected as the proteomics partner for the world's biggest proteomics study, analysing 56K samples from the well-known UK Biobank with the Olink Explore 3072 platform. The study was sponsored by major pharmaceutical companies, which clearly shows the growing interest in proteomics in drug development as well as academia. These types of studies were not po...