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Wednesday, March 14, 2012  |   |   |   |  The Biomarker World Congress 2012 is dedicated to all areas of biomarker research. The meeting brings together a mix of large and medium pharmaceutical, biotech and diagnostics companies, leading universities and clinical research institutions, government and national labs, CROs, emerging companies and tool providers. 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