Bridging the translational innovation gap through good biomarker practice

Few biomarkers progress from discovery to become validated tools or diagnostics. To bridge this gap, three European biomedical research infrastructures — EATRIS-ERIC (focused on translational medicine), BBMRI-ERIC (focused on biobanking) and ELIXIR (focused on data sharing) — are paving the way to developing and sharing best practices for biomarker validation. Few biomarkers progress from discovery to become validated tools or diagnostics. To bridge this gap, three European biomedical research infrastructures — EATRIS-ERIC (focused on translational medicine), BBMRI-ERIC (focused on biobanking) and ELIXIR (focused on data sharing) — are paving the way to developing and sharing best practices for biomarker validation.