Hanna Kamińska has just started her Ph.D. studies during which she is going to work on the protein identification algorithms for modern tandem mass spectrometry solutions.

The aim of her studies is to improve the algorithms applied to database protein identification. Hanna's Ph.D. thesis advisor, Prof. Roman Zubarev from Karolinska Intitutet, is going to help her achieve that goal. The collaboration has already started and we are waiting impatiently for the first results.

I have started collaboration with prof. Roman Zubarev on a project related to biomarker discovery for Alzheimer's disease.

Selected preliminary results (obtained using MedicWave software) have already been presented in Finland during FP7 Predict AD Workshop in June, 2011.

Market of biomarkers is currently going through a major growth. The drive for that is the demand of biomarker based drug development and diagnosis. To fulfill this demand numerous companies and research facilities have been joining their forces to provide novel platforms in metabolomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics.

Nowadays we can also observe a trend of supporting biomarkers market from government agencies worldwide, including the US FDA, as well as from pharmaceutical companies.