Conference Proceedings – 4th International Conference on Molecular Diagnostics and Biomarker Discovery: Antibody Technology

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Funding Support The conference and this publication was funded by Ministry of Education Malaysia, Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), under the grant (HICoE: 311/CIPPM/4401005) Organizing Committee Yee Siew Choong (Chair) Gee Jun Tye Noral Wiah Hj Abdul Karim Theam Soon Lim Khairul Mohd Fadzli Mustaffa Chiuan Herng Leow Chiuan Yee Leow Venugopal Balakrishnan Rahmah Noordin (Advisor) Venue Equatorial Hotel Penang, Penang, Malaysia The Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine (INFORMM) is a research institute under the Universiti Sains Malaysia. It was established in the year 2003 as a translational and multidisciplinary institute, with strengths in research on diagnostics and biomarker discovery. It aims to provide diagnostics solutions, especially to those affecting people in low resource settings. There are three research clusters at INFORMM, i.e., Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases (DID), Advanced Research Technologies (ART), and Cancer Research (CARE). In the year 2010, INFORMM gained recognition by the Malaysian Ministry of Education as one of the country’s Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), in the niche area of Diagnostics Platform. Molecular Diagnostics and Biomarker Discovery (MDBD) is an international conference held annually by INFORMM since the year 2016, with support from the Ministry of Education. The conference provides a platform for scientists and postgraduate students locally and internationally to share their new findings, and deliberate on the current topics, as well as to network and initiate collaborations. The three research clusters at INFORMM take turns to organize the annual MDBD conference. This year, the ART cluster led the