Biomarker and target solutions: bespoke models for drug developers

Custom biomarker models

Models built for proprietary biomarkers, with a clear path to the clinic

Approach

01

Build

A proof of concept on archived tissue, validated against pathologist scores and across sites and scanners.

02

Qualify

Run retrospectively on clinical trial samples and tested against patient outcomes to build the evidence dossier.

03

Deploy

Used in the clinic as a laboratory-developed test or regulated diagnostic, including companion diagnostics.

Example use cases

Scoring hard-to-read IHC biomarkers

Some IHC stains are hard to score consistently by eye. We have built over 50 models that score them automatically, including for antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) and radiopharmaceuticals. Models locate staining by cell compartment, grade intensity, and calculate scores such as TPS and CPS.

F1 > 0.95

Positive vs. negative scoring of proprietary biomarkers

F1 > 0.85

Scoring across intensity levels, from none to strong

F1: agreement with reference scores, 1 is perfect. Source: Aignostics internal analyses

Predicting molecular status from routine H&E

Trained on H&E slides paired with IHC and gene panel results, our models predict biomarker expression and mutation status from H&E alone. Validated models can pre-screen patients for trials or serve as diagnostics.

AUC 0.86

Biomarker expression vs. pathologist scores. 0.94 with clinical data added

AUC 0.71–0.76

EGFR (0.76), STK11 (0.71) and TP53 (0.75) mutations vs. gene panel sequencing. Trained on 2,000+ clinical H&E images, tested on independent data

AUC: 0.5 is chance, 1 is perfect. Source: Aignostics internal analyses [citation to add]

Target and biomarker identification

Uncover new biology with multimodal data and AI

Aignostics approach

We assess novel targets and biomarkers across clinical, spatial and omics data, fusing insights from multiple levels of biology, including:

  • Clinical metadata
  • H&E / IHC
  • mIF
  • Spatial Transcriptomics
  • Proteomics
  • scRNA-seq
  • Methylomics

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