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Implementing Precision Medicine in an Academic Hospital

October 21, 2016

Precision medicine, or personalized medicine, is a growing field that uses big data to treat the individual patient. It uses tools such as DNA sequencing and bioinformatics to ask, “What are the individual characteristics of my patient?” — for example, in her genetic makeup, environment or in the mutation profile of her tumor — and […]

Alisa Mo ⋅ Perspectives in Research academic hospitals, inhealth, personalized medicine, precision medicine ⋅

Local and National Precision Medicine Initiatives Aim to Individualize Medical Care

August 11, 2016

“You can match a blood transfusion to a blood type — that was an important discovery. What if matching a cancer cure to our genetic code was just as easy, just as standard? What if figuring out the right dose of medicine was as simple as taking our temperature?” President Obama posed these questions in […]

Benjamin Ostrander ⋅ Perspectives in Research Johns Hopkins InHealth, precision medicine ⋅

Research Transitions: From Wet Lab to Big Data

May 11, 2016

President Obama announced details about the Precision Medicine Initiative in his State of the Union Address in January 2015. The initiative focuses on individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle as avenues for disease treatments. It provides tools to understand complex mechanisms that underlie conditions and to predict effective treatments. The process requires the gathering […]

ytreesukosol ⋅ A Day in the Life Big Data, Biomedical Careers Initiative, precision medicine ⋅

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