Items Tagged ‘Biobank’
April 12, 2016
Center for Individualized Medicine Explores WGS, Diagnostic Exomes, PGx Analysis, Gene Panels
By Jeff Briggs 
The Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, or CIM as we like to say, has been rolling out genomic testing for its patients, integrating genomics into electronic medical records, and participating in clinical trials that focus on delivering personalized medicine. Keith Stewart, M.B., Ch.B., the Carlson and Nelson Endowed Director of the Center for Individualized […]
Tags: Biobank, center for individualized medicine, diagnostic odyssey, Dr. Keith Stewart, gene panels, GenomeWeb, PGx, Pharmacogenetics, whole exome sequencing, whole genome sequencing
March 29, 2016
Mayo Clinic Expert Shares Five Things to Know About Colorectal Cancer
By Jeff Briggs
March is Colon and Rectal Cancer Awareness Month Roughly 140,000 people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the U.S. each year. It is the third most common cancer and No. 2 cause of cancer-related deaths among men and women. Heidi Nelson, M.D., chief of surgery at Mayo Clinic, and director of the Mayo Clinic Center […]
Tags: Biobank, center for individualized medicine, ColoGuard, colon cancer, colorectal, colorectal cancer, Dr. Heidi Nelson, Precision Medicine, rectal cancer
December 29, 2015
Delivering on the Promise of Precision Medicine: 2015 Year in Review
By Jeff Briggs
2015 was the year of precision medicine. “Individualized medicine is already providing profound changes in how we treat patients,” said Keith Stewart, M.B., Ch.B., the Carlson and Nelson Endowed Director of the Center for Individualized Medicine, as he opened the 2015 Individualizing Medicine Conference. “It is offering hope to people who had no hope, […]
Tags: Biobank, biomarkers, breast cancer, center for individualized medicine, diagnostic odyssey, Dr. Aleksandar Sekulic, Dr. J. Craig Venter, Dr. Keith Stewart, Dr. Konstantinos Lazaridis, Dr. Richard Weinshilboum, Genome Sequencing, Gianrico Farrugia
December 23, 2015
By Jeff Briggs
In the not-so-distant future, whole genome sequencing — determining your entire unique DNA makeup in the laboratory — will be as routine as X-rays and cholesterol testing. Whole genome sequencing provides the most comprehensive collection available of an individual’s genetic variation. Genomic information has been instrumental in identifying inherited disorders, characterizing the mutations that drive […]
Tags: Biobank, center for individualized medicine, Clinomics, Dr. Keith Stewart, Genome Sequencing, Human Genome Project, mayo clinic, WGS, whole genome sequencing
November 2, 2015
By Jeff Briggs
“Who Owns Your Genes?” by Diana Brazzell, executive editor at Footnote, is the third and final article in the genomic medicine series by Footnote, a website that brings academic research and ideas to a broader audience. The series has focused on how precision medicine is being used today to improve health care treatment for patients. […]
Tags: Biobank, Bioethics, center for individualized medicine, DNA Testing, Dr. Barbara Koenig, Dr. Gloria Petersen, Genetic Testing, individualized medicine, personalized medicine, Precision Medicine, Susan Wolf
October 17, 2015
By Jeff Briggs
Rochester Post Bulletin reporter Heather Carlson filed the following story after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell toured the Mayo Clinic Biobank on Friday with U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (DFL-Minn.). Mayo Clinic President and CEO John Noseworthy, M.D.,and Keith Stewart, M.B., Ch.B., director, Center for Individualized Medicine, guided the walking tour of the […]
Tags: Biobank, Biorepositories, center for individualized medicine, Dr. John Noseworthy, Dr. Keith Stewart, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell, Precision Medicine, Senator Amy Klobuchar
June 17, 2015
Dr. Keith Stewart Highlights the Discoveries and Looks at the Future of Genomic Medicine
By Jeff Briggs
Keith Stewart, M.B., Ch.B., recently appointed the Carlson and Nelson Endowed Director of the Center for Individualized Medicine, highlighted the latest discoveries in genomic research and illustrated them with patient stories to demonstrate the power of genomic medicine to supporters of Mayo Clinic’s fundraising campaign, “You Are . . . The Campaign for Mayo Clinic.” […]
Tags: Biobank, Bioethics, cancer, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Keith Stewart, Dustin Bennett, genomic medicine, Gianrico Farrugia, individualized medicine, mayo clinic, Pharmacogenetics, Precision Medicine
June 4, 2015
Biorepositories Program Includes World-Class Biobank, National Press Foundation Reporters Discover
By Jeff Briggs
When 20 national health care reporters recently visited Mayo Clinic for an immersion in precision medicine — also known as individualized medicine — one of the highlights of the four-day event put on by the National Press Foundation (NPF) was a tour of the Mayo Clinic Biobank. NPF President and COO Sandy Johnson and Digital […]
Tags: Biobank, Biorepositories, center for individualized medicine, Individualized Medicine Clinic, James Cerhan, National Press Foundation, Precision Medicine, Stephen Thibodeau
May 27, 2015
Mayo Clinic Bioservices Now Open to External Investigators
By Jeff Briggs
How does dietary sodium affect the stress-related change in heart rate? That is the question that John Eisenach, M.D., an anesthesiologist for Kaiser Permanente, asked as he started researching the effects of certain genetic alterations and how these changes influence heart and blood vessel function under controlled levels of sodium in the diet. He needed […]
Tags: Biobank, biomarkers, Biorepositories, center for individualized medicine, genomic medicine, Precision Medicine
May 15, 2015
Mayo Clinic to Study 10,000 Patients for Drug-Gene Safety
By Jeff Briggs
Today, we have exciting news from the Center for Individualized Medicine. We suspected something was up when we heard Dr. Weinshilboum walking through the halls humming the Bob Dylan folk anthem “The Times They Are a Changin’.” If you care about precision medicine and the role pharmacogenomics plays in the future of health care, they […]
Tags: Biobank, center for individualized medicine, DNA Sequencing, genomics, IndividualizedMedicine, pharmacogenomics