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In 1997, while still working at NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, several of us made a proteomic bet. We thought then, and continue to think, that proteomics offers a chance to identify disease-specific biomarkers and improve healthcare. However, interrogating proteins turned out to be a much harder problem than interrogating nucleic acids. Consequently, the 'omics' revolution has been fueled largely by genomics. High-scale proteomics promises to transform medicine with personalized diagnostics, prevention, and treatment. We have now reached into the human proteome to quantify more than 1000 proteins in any human matrix - serum, plasma, CSF, BAL, and also tissue extracts - with our new SOMAmer-based proteomics platform. The surprising and pleasant news is that we have made unbiased protein biomarker discovery a routine and fast exercise. The downstream implications of the platform are substantial.

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