The NBDA inaugural workshop is Workshop I in a series that will, over the next several months, bring together groups of experts from all sectors to specifically identify the level of interests standards needed to build a rational (and predictable) biomarker development pipeline. The NBDA, which is hosted by Arizona State University (ASU), currently consists of three founding partners, ASU, the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and the International Genome Consortium (IGC). Workshop I, is scheduled for December 13 -14, 2012, at the Camelback Inn, Scottsdale, AZ