Advances in Clinical Chemistry

Dr Gregory S Makowski is a board-certified clinical chemist and fellow of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry. Following receipt of his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Connecticut Storrs, he pursued post-doctoral studies at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington that culminated in joint appointments in the School of Medicine and the Department of Laboratory Medicine at John Dempsey Hospital. He has numerous clinical and basic science publications and serves on various scientific and editorial boards. He is actively engaged in the training of Pathology residents and fellows in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Hartford Hospital. He currently serves as Vice President Clinical Laboratory Services Hartford HealthCare in Connecticut.

D-dimer: An Overview of Hemostasis and Fibrinolysis, Assays and Clinical Applications
John D. Olson

Circulating Biomarkers in Malignant Melanoma
Estibaliz Alegre, Miguel Sammamed, Sara Fernández-Landázuri, Leyre Zubiri and Álvaro González

Cancer Therapy and Replication Stress: Forks on the Road to Perdition
Panagiotis Kotsantis, Rebecca M. Jones, Martin R. Higgs and Eva Petermann

Soluble ST2 in Ventricular Dysfunction
Silvia Lupu and Lucia Agoston-Coldea

Biofluid Protease Profiling in Diabetes Mellitus
Fábio Trindade, Rita Ferreira, Francisco Amado and Rui Vitorino

Biomarker Characterization by MALDI-TOF/MS
Yi-Tzu Cho, Hung Su, Wen-Jeng Wu, Deng-Chyang Wu, Ming-Feng Hou, Chao-Hung Kuo and Jentaie Shiea

Antibody Arrays in Biomarker DiscoveryJarad J. Wilson, Rob Burgess, Ying-Qing Mao, Shuhong Luo, Hao Tang, Valerie Sloane Jones, Bao Weisheng, Ren-Yu Huang, Xuesong Chen and Ruo-Pan Huang