Artificial Intelligence
August 31, 2022
Critical Questions About AI: A Researcher Takes Pulse of Clinicians, Patients
By Susan Murphy 
Richard Sharp, Ph.D., director of Mayo Clinic’s Biomedical Ethics Research Program, is heading a team studying what people think about medical innovations like genetic testing, neuromodulation and now AI.
Tags: center for individualized medicine, genomic medicine, medical research
August 1, 2022
New AI algorithm opens avenues for knowledge discoveries
In a proof-of-concept study published in Frontiers in Immunology, Hu Li, Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine systems biologist, developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm which uses novel weight engineering methods to extract meaningful biological knowledge learned by AI models. He and his team applied the tool to breast cancer omic data […]
Tags: Cancer Research, center for individualized medicine, individualized medicine, mayo clinic, personalized medicine
July 6, 2022
Do environmental exposures contribute to human diseases?
By Susan Murphy
Mayo Clinic researchers put the exposome under the microscope to understand links between lifelong exposures and diseases.
Tags: center for individualized medicine, DNA Testing, Dr. Konstantinos Lazaridis, exposome, gene sequencing, Genetics, genomics
June 29, 2022
Mayo study validates threshold to determine when an antidepressant is ineffective
By Susan Murphy
Mayo Clinic researchers have validated a threshold designed to help determine if an antidepressant used for depression is working, but not well enough to be continued.
Tags: #Dr. William Bobo, antidepressants, center for individualized medicine, depression, genomics, individualized medicine, major depressive disorder, medical research, personalized medicine
March 16, 2022
Mayo Clinic researchers use AI to predict antidepressant outcomes in youth
Mayo Clinic researchers have taken the first step in using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict early outcomes with antidepressants in children and adolescents with major depressive disorder, in a study published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Tags: center for individualized medicine, genomics, individualized medicine, mayo clinic, medical research, personalized medicine
January 12, 2022
By Susan Murphy
Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine researchers may have discovered a genomic signature to predict which patients with mesothelioma could benefit from immunotherapy.
Tags: #mesothelioma, cancer, Cancer Research, center for individualized medicine, Genetics, genomics
December 28, 2021
10 Significant Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine studies of 2021
By Susan Murphy
It has been an impactful year of genomic and multi-omic research and scientific discoveries in Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine. While much focus in 2021 was centered on advancing the knowledge of COVID-19, Mayo scientists and physician have also worked to develop individualized treatments, prevention measures and diagnostics for patients with rare and undiagnosed diseases, cancer and other illnesses.
Tags: center for individualized medicine, DNA Testing, gene sequencing, Genetics, genomic medicine, genomics
August 30, 2021
By Susan Murphy
Moritz Binder M.D., a physician-scientist in Mayo Clinic’s divisions of Hematology and Oncology, and Satsuki Yamada, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-scientist in the division of Cardiovascular Diseases, are recipients of the 2021 Gerstner Family Career Development Awards. The competitive awards are presented annually by Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine to researchers conducting innovative investigations to […]
June 24, 2021
Mayo researchers develop algorithm to predict rheumatoid arthritis disease activity
By Susan Murphy
Researchers within Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine and Division of Rheumatology have developed a first-of-its-kind machine learning algorithm that can predict rheumatoid arthritis disease activity in a patient. The algorithm analyzes biochemical metabolites ― the product of the body’s metabolism ― in blood. “Having fast, reliable and scalable measures for predicting the clinical course […]
Tags: #algorithm, genomics, Precision Medicine, Rheumatoid Arthritis
May 17, 2021
In the near future, genome sequencing, among other biological measures, will be as routine as X-rays and cholesterol testing. The challenge, though, will be accurately interpreting the vast amount of data and effectively using it to guide decisions about health care. In a position statement published in Hepatology, Mayo Clinic researchers layout perspectives of various […]
Tags: mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, multi-omics, Precision Medicine