**Meet the editor**

Laura Anfossi received her M.S. degree in Chemistry with full marks and honors and her Ph.D. degree in Biochemical Sciences at the University of Torino, Italy, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. Since 2015 she has been an associate professor of Analytical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry (University of Torino). She has published more than 85 papers in peer-reviewed inter-

national journals, four book chapters and one patent. She is a member of the editorial board of the journals *Toxins* and *Food and Agricultural Immunology*. She has been involved in national and international competitive projects and has been responsible for joint projects with companies that brought to the market several immunodiagnostic kits. Her main research interest is the development of innovative immunodiagnostic methods.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Immunoassays 9**

**Drug Discovery 45**

**Early Diagnosis 63**

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Rapid Test - Advances in Design, Formats, and Detection Strategies 1**

Chapter 2 **Ways to Reach Lower Detection Limits of Lateral Flow**

Anatoly V. Zherdev and Boris B. Dzantiev

Gonzalez-Gonzalez and Manuel Fuentes

Reem K. Arafa and Mariam M. Ahmed

Laura Anfossi, Cristina Giovannoli and Claudio Baggiani

Chapter 3 **Microarrays as Platform for Multiplex Assays in Biomarker and**

Chapter 4 **SLE, An Overlooked Disease: Possibilities for Early Rescue by**

Pablo Juanes-Velasco, Javier Carabias-Sanchez, Rodrigo Garcia-Valiente, Jonatan Fernandez-García, Rafael Gongora, Maria
