Items Tagged ‘Dr. Aleksandar Sekulic’

July 8, 2021

New biorepository will serve as critical resource

By Susan Murphy Susan Murphy (@susanmurphy)

By Julie Janovsky-Mason Mayo Clinic is several months away from opening the doors to its new biorepository on the Phoenix campus. The facility will serve as a central resource to store and process biological specimens and clinical data for researchers working to develop therapeutics, vaccines and other medical advances. The planned 16,000-square-foot facility is the […]

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Tags: Biorepository, bioresearch, Dr. Aleksandar Sekulic, Dr. Stephen Thibodeau


May 15, 2018

Arresting melanoma’s molecular drivers

By Susan Buckles Susan Buckles (@susanbuckles)

Article by Barbara Toman Melanoma, the skin cancer often associated with sun exposure, is on the rise and has no reliable cure. May is National Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month, aimed at increasing early detection and treatment of this aggressive disease. Mayo Clinic is at the forefront of these efforts. The Center for Individualized Medicine […]

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Tags: #Dr. Minetta Liu, #skin cancer, cancer genomics, DNA Testing, Dr. Aleksandar Sekulic, Liquid biopsy, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester, Melanoma


September 14, 2017

Q and A: How has genomics led to precision cancer care?

By Sharon Rosen Sharon Rosen (@sharonhrosen)

How has cancer care changed with advances in genomic medicine? For example, for patients diagnosed with melanoma today, will their treatment options be different than those that were available 10 or 15 years ago? These are some of the questions we posed to  Aleksandar Sekulic, M.D., Ph.D., associate director, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, […]

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Tags: #cancer treatment, #Genomic analysis, #pharmacogenomics testing, #targeted therapies, cancer, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Aleksandar Sekulic, Genetic Testing, genomics, mayo clinic, medical research, Melanoma


December 2, 2016

What is precision medicine? New tools for better diagnosis, treatment and prevention

By Sharon Rosen Sharon Rosen (@sharonhrosen)

You’ve undoubtedly heard the term, “the promise of precision medicine.”  But, what does that mean and how will it impact your own health? Aleksandar Sekulic, M.D., Ph.D., assistant director, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, recently spoke to a group of patients on Mayo Clinic’s campus in Rochester, Minn. to answer these questions. New treatments […]

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Tags: #DNA sequencing costs, #PrecisionMedicine, #RIGHT 10K study, #targeted therapies, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Aleksandar Sekulic, mayo clinic, Melanoma, PGx, pharmacogenomics


December 29, 2015

Delivering on the Promise of Precision Medicine: 2015 Year in Review

By Jeff Briggs Jeff Briggs (@JeffreyBriggs)

  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, […]

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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 3, 2015

Aleksandar Sekulic, M.D., Ph.D., Named Associate Director for the Center for Individualized Medicine, Arizona

By Jeff Briggs Jeff Briggs (@JeffreyBriggs)

The Center for Individualized Medicine in Arizona will have a new associate director beginning January 1, 2016. Aleksandar Sekulic, M.D., Ph.D., has accepted the position, according to Keith Stewart, M.B., Ch.B., the Carlson and Nelson Endowed Director of the Center for Individualized Medicine. Dr. Sekulic succeeds Richard Caselli, M.D., who has been leading the center’s […]

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Tags: cancer, center for individualized medicine, Center for Individualized Medicine Arizona, Dr. Aleksandar Sekulic, Dr. Keith Stewart, Melanoma, Melanoma Research Alliance, Metastatic melanoma, Stand Up to Cancer


June 22, 2015

Mayo Clinic and TGen Help Launch Clinical Trials to Combat Advanced Skin Cancer

By Jeff Briggs Jeff Briggs (@JeffreyBriggs)

With the advent of the Human Genome Project, it has become possible to completely sequence the DNA of a patient or his or her tumor. This technique has the potential to allow physicians to identify a tumor’s unique vulnerabilities, or even to predict which tumors will recur or which may be benign enough that no […]

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Tags: cancer, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Alan Bryce, Dr. Aleksandar Sekulic, Dr. Jeffrey Trent, genomics, individualized medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Melanoma, Metastatic melanoma, personalized medicine, Precision Medicine


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