Recently, Dr.Ron Hencin, VP, BioResearch Sales, talked with Pharma Services News (BioITworld) editor John Russell about Gene Logic’s plans for the future, its increased confidence and growing reach resulting from being part of Ocimum, and the rapidly changing genomics services market and competitive landscape.

Hencin: There’s certainly a shift away from the early target discovery days when people were searching madly for what kind of mechanistic things we could uncover with expression profiling. That’s still ongoing but it’s not the only thing. I think the shift has really been made to translational medicine. The question now is how can we take what we’ve learned in clinical and preclinical or tox studies and put it into the early phase clinical trials to develop markers to identify efficacy events or adverse events and more importantly to stratify the patients moving into trials to get a better population that’s going to save costs by not having as many non-responders. The biggest area of growth is in phase one and phase two clinical trials. I see the growth in areas where genomics can be applied in much larger trials and being able to have marker-based diagnostics that you will apply to your population to monitor it during the course the larger trials for both efficacy as well as adverse events. I think that the whole genomic ADME screening market is kind of a no brainer. You have to do this because there will be more of these markers that are almost mandated by FDA as well as pharmaceutical companies

Read the complete interview at the BioITworld website