Cardiometabolic biomarker discovery at scale.

Identify dynamic biomarkers to de‑risk cardiometabolic drug development.

Cardiometabolic diseases can be quite heterogeneous, deeply influenced by metabolic, inflammatory, and environmental factors. Conditions such as type 2 diabetes, MASH, and cardiovascular disease often share overlapping mechanisms – but can manifest substantially different patient outcomes. Sapient’s cardiometabolic biomarker discovery services are designed to decipher this complexity by revealing meaningful biological differences among patients who appear similar based on genomics, routine lab values, or clinical characteristics alone. By measuring dynamic proteins, metabolites, lipids, and immune signals, we uncover functional phenotypes that can explain why individuals with the same diagnosis, or even comparable genetic risk, can diverge in disease progression and therapeutic response.

Key questions we can help your cardiometabolic programs answer:

What metabolic and inflammatory pathways change with disease progression or treatment?

What exposure signals modify genetic risk?

Which metabolic signals precede clinical disease?

Which patients are most likely to respond to a given therapy?

Biomarker discovery for disease progression.

Identify molecular signatures associated with disease onset, progression, and complication risk by measuring dynamic proteins, metabolites, and lipids linked to metabolic dysfunction and inflammation.

Biomarkers to predict disease & drug response.

Discover biomarkers that read out treatment response, target engagement, and mechanism of action, enabling early detection of subtle metabolic changes and more informed go/no‑go decisions.

Patient stratification for heterogeneous populations.

Resolve biologically distinct patient subgroups across cardiometabolic diseases using integrated multi‑omics data and our DynamiQ™ Insights Engine to cross-validate findings in independent cohorts.

Translational support to advance discoveries to clinical phases.

Advance promising biomarkers from discovery into translational and early clinical studies by confirming human relevance and reproducibility across cohorts and timepoints.

cardiometabolic biomarker discovery services

Next-gen approaches to enable comprehensive cardiometabolic biomarker discovery.

We’ve innovated our methods with a focus on profiling dynamic biology at a new depth and scale, capturing proteins, metabolites, and lipids that change with metabolic diseases and treatment. These offerings include:

CARDIOMETABOLIC CASE STUDY

Systematic Inflammatory Profiling Reveals Immune Modulation in Response to Weight Loss Intervention

See the exciting findings from a multi-omics study utilizing the NULISA Inflammation Panel 250 alongside Sapient’s mass spectrometry-based discovery proteomics and metabolomics to characterize changes in inflammatory markers observed following GLP-1 therapy.

Validate and extend biomarker discoveries with DynamiQ™ insights.

DynamiQ is Sapient’s large-scale, longitudinal molecular‑clinical database, built from tens of thousands of deeply phenotyped human samples collected across multiple timepoints. For cardiometabolic biomarker discovery, DynamiQ enables:

  • Cross‑validation of biomarkers identified through omics profiling in your samples
  • Biological contextualization of findings across diagnoses, disease states, and patient subgroups
  • Exploration of links between observed molecular biomarkers, treatments, and real‑world outcomes
dynamiq contextualize metabolomics

Confirm & contextualize molecular signals over time and across patient journeys.

dynamiq disease trajectories

Layer your data and ours to orthogonally validate findings and extend discoveries.

metabolomics dynamiq expansion

Ground biomarker discovery in real patient data to bridge the translational gap.

How is multi-omics accelerating cardiometabolic drug development?

metabolomics foundation model

Mapping Human Metabolic Diversity with Foundation Models: A DynamiQ Approach

metabolomics analysis at scale

The Omics Brief | Novel Findings from Deep Metabolomics Analysis in Population Scale Studies

aging clock model

Turning back the metabolic aging clock

mass spectrometry metabolomics

Sapient publishes breakthrough rLC-MS metabolomics study in over 26,000 samples, revealing metabolic aging clock and disease insights

biomarkers for glp-1 agonists

Trimming time: metabolomics insights to speed development of GLP-1 therapies

diabetes biomarkers

Plasma Lipid Metabolites, Clinical Glycemic Predictors, and Incident Type 2 Diabetes

human metabolism study

Sapient Contributes to Groundbreaking Study on Human Liver Metabolism Published in Nature Metabolism

nash biomarker case study

Discovery of an Early Diagnostic Biomarker for NASH

Accelerate cardiometabolic biomarker discovery with human‑relevant insights.

Connect with our scientists to discuss the biological questions you want to answer. We’ll show you how our multi-omics approaches can deliver the actionable insights you’re looking for.

multi-omics drug development CRO lab