RE: Anti-IFN autoantibodies immunoassay1 Feb 2024 15:56
In light of the expected use of the Casanova assay test in our upcoming Phase2 trials, and the assay being a new development.
I’ve been looking at the requirements for Diagnostic Trials, assuming Synairgen will be first out the blocks to utilise this new test, it would appear that the stakeholders of the Casanova assay test have as much to gain from a successful SNG001 Phase2 trial as ourselves.
It leads me to believe that the Casanova stakeholders have been careful when choosing the right candidate (SNG001) to showcase their diagnostic test. Hence a perfect marriage for both Synairgen and Casanova stakeholders:
“Although establishing an accurate diagnosis or excluding disease is a critical first step to manage a health problem, medical decision-makers generally rely on a larger evidence base of empirical data that includes how tests impact patient health outcomes, such as morbidity, mortality, functional status, and quality of life. Therefore, the diagnostic trial type II evaluates the value of test results to guide or determine treatment decisions within a broader management strategy. Typically, differences in diagnostic accuracy result in differences in delivery of treatment, and ultimately affect disease prognosis and patient outcomes. As such, in the diagnostic trial type II, the downstream consequences of tests followed by treatment decisions are evaluated together in a joint construct. These diagnostic randomized clinical trials or test-treatment trials are considered the gold standard of proof for the clinical effectiveness or clinical utility of diagnostic tests.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3600406/
From the past, we know there has been mutual admiration for each other’s work in the autoantibodies and INF field.