Items Tagged ‘biomarker’
August 6, 2019
Meet Mukesh Pandey, Ph.D. – developing a new drug to detect prostate cancer in its earliest stages
By Sharon Rosen 
With a background in organic chemistry, Mukesh Pandey, Ph.D., initially planned to work in the pharmaceutical industry developing medications. But after completing a post-doctoral research fellowship in radiology at Harvard Medical School, he chose to focus his skills on improving imaging technologies to better detect the first signs of disease. Now he is a nuclear […]
Tags: #Center for Individualized Mediicine, #GA-68 radiotracer, biomarker, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine Biomarker Discovery Program, molecular imaging
June 27, 2017
TOGETHER trial – a personalized approach to detect, treat organ rejection
By Sharon Rosen
For physicians caring for patients after kidney transplantation, it’s a balancing act. They need to select the right immunosuppressant drug and dosage to enable the patient’s immune system to accept the new kidney, but allow it to fight other unwanted infections. Physicians also want to reduce potential side effects from these immunosuppression medications, which can […]
Tags: #blood test, #Genomic analysis, #heart transplant, #Immunosuppresion, #kidney transplant, #liver transplant, #Mayo Clinic Transplant Center, #Mayo Clinic Transplant Programs, #organ rejection, #Transplant Genomics Inc., biomarker, center for individualized medicine
June 13, 2017
The magic of the microbiome: new Mayo researcher looks for ways to promote health, prevent disease
By Sharon Rosen
“Don’t miss seeing the forest by focusing only on the trees,” explains Jaeyun Sung, Ph.D., a systems biologist who recently joined the Microbiome Program within Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine. That is Dr. Sung’s approach to exploring how the microbiome – the tens of trillions of microbes within and on our bodies – affects […]
Tags: #childhood obesity, #CIMCon17, #digestive system, #Dr. Jaeyun Sung, #gut health, #individualized diets, #microbes, #probiotics, biomarker, center for individualized medicine, gut bacteria, mayo clinic
January 6, 2017
Vaginal microbes point toward early detection and screening for endometrial cancer
By Sharon Rosen
Article by Colette Gallagher, Public Affairs Marina Walther-Antonio, Ph.D., a researcher from the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, set out to discover the role microbiomes play in the development of endometrial cancer. Mayo researchers conducted the first direct assessment uterine microbiome study published in Genome Medicine. As a result of the study, researchers now […]
Tags: #uterine microbiome, biomarker, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Marina Walther-Antonio, Endometrial cancer, mayo clinic, medical research
May 19, 2016
Microbiome Biomarker Found that Triggers Rheumatoid Arthritis
By Jeff Briggs 
Call it a gut reaction. Doctors don’t know what triggers the body’s immune system to attack the joints that cause rheumatoid arthritis, but Veena Taneja, Ph.D., an immunologist at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, has long suspected a link between the trillions of microbes living and working inside our digestive systems and the […]
Tags: biomarker, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Eric Matteson, Dr. John Davis, Dr. Veena Taneja, Gut, Gut Microbiome, III, microbiome, RA, Rheumatoid Arthritis
May 10, 2016
Protein May Predict Response to Immunotherapy in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma
By Jeff Briggs
Biomedical research is a large part of the mission at Mayo Clinic and here at the Center for Individualized Medicine, as we wrote about in a recent blog. News of a study that was funded in part by the Center’s Biomarker Discovery Program was just announced that may help immunotherapy for patients with metastatic melanoma. […]
Tags: Bim, Bim protein, biomarker, Biomarker Discovery Program, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Haidong Dong, Dr. Roxana Dronca, immunotherapy, Melanoma, Metastatic melanoma
January 22, 2016
Genomic Rearrangement Drives Pancreatic Cancer
By Jeff Briggs
Pancreatic cancer remains the fourth leading cause of cancer-associated deaths in the United States. While prognosis has improved for other major cancers thanks to early diagnosis, better therapies and a more comprehensive knowledge of genetic factors, death rates from pancreatic cancer continue to rise. Roughly 90 percent of pancreatic cancers are ductal pancreatic adenocarcinomas (PDAC) […]
Tags: biomarker, Biomarker Discovery Program, biomarkers, cancer, center for individualized medicine, Dr. George Vasmatzis, genomic medicine, NIH, Pancreatic Cancer
December 21, 2015
Mayo Clinic Researchers Identify Potential Biomarkers for Bipolar I Disorder
By Jeff Briggs
Biomarkers are molecular substances in the body that can be used to indicate health or disease. These biomarkers can be found in tissue, blood, urine and other body fluids. Biomarkers can lead to individualized diagnosis and treatment. The Biomarker Discovery Program is one of the signature programs here at the Center for Individualized Medicine. It […]
Tags: biomarker, biomarkers, bipolar, bipolar I disorder, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Mark Frye
October 21, 2015
How Genomics Will Change the Way We Treat Cancer Patients
By Jeff Briggs
Dr. George Vasmatzis Brings Biomarker Discovery to New Audience at TEDxMinneapolis Everyone knows someone who has or has had cancer — including George Vasmatzis, Ph.D., co-director of the Biomarker Discovery Program at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine. This experience led him eventually to the Mayo Clinic where today he searches for clues in […]
Tags: biomarker, Biomarker Discovery Program, biomarkers, cancer, center for individualized medicine, Dr. George Vasmatzis, TED talks, TEDxMinneapolis
September 23, 2015
Featured Poster of the Day from Individualizing Medicine Conference 2015
By Jeff Briggs
Saurabh Sinha, Ph.D., and Casey Hanson, Ph.D. Candidate Computational Discovery of Transcription Factors Associated With Drug Response Saurabh Sinha, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Urbana, Illinois Casey Hanson, Ph.D. Candidate Research Assistant, Ph.D Candidate University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, Illinois Topic: Biomarkers, Cancer Dr. Sinha […]
Tags: biomarker, cancer, Casey Hanson, Dr. Saurabh Sinha, individualized medicine, Individualized Medicine Conference 2015, pharmacogenomics