November 6, 2015
Talks Now Available from Individualizing Medicine Conference 2015
By Jeff Briggs
From Dr. Gianrico Farrugia’s opening keynote address to genomics pioneer Dr. J. Craig Venter’s closing address, all of the plenary session talks from the Individualizing Medicine Conference 2015: From Promise to Practice are now available on the conference website. If you weren’t able to join us in Rochester, Minn., from September 20-23, you’ll want to […]
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October 13, 2015
Individualizing Medicine Conference 2015: The Time of Precision Medicine
By Jeff Briggs
“Our job is to deliver individualized medicine to the bedside of all our patients.” said Keith Stewart, M.B., Ch.B., to launch the fourth annual Individualizing Medicine Conference: From Promise to Practice in Rochester, Minn., home of Mayo Clinic. “And this is the year of precision medicine, launched by President Obama in January in announcing the […]
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September 22, 2015
Individualizing Medicine Conference 2015: Day Two Recap
By Jeff Briggs
We’re about to embark on “the most exciting decade in genomics,” J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., told attendees in the closing keynote address at the 2015 Individualizing Medicine Conference: From Promise to Practice. None of the 800 people gathered in Rochester, Minn., for the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine’s fourth annual conference on genomic medicine […]
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August 7, 2015
From Bench to Bedside, From Promise to Practice
By Jeff Briggs
Each day brings brilliant new discoveries in precision medicine: mate-pair sequencing of cancer tumors; identifying a gene defect in ALS; saving a woman’s life who might have succumbed to breast cancer without her mouse avatar. Each day precision medicine—also known as individualized medicine—saves a life, improves a life, gives a patient hope for the future. […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, Dr. Edison Liu, Dr. Stephen Friend, genomics, Gianrico Farrugia, individualized medicine, Individualizing Medicine Conference 2015, J. Craig Venter, personalized medicine, Precision Medicine, Promise to Practice
June 25, 2015
Conquering Cancer: New Strategies through Individualized Medicine
By Jeff Briggs
Everyone’s life has been affected by cancer. Everyone’s. Many people are cancer survivors. Others are family or friends of someone who has fought the disease. But nobody has escaped the terrible burden cancer brings to our lives. Perhaps this is why so many physicians and researchers around the world have dedicated their lives to eradicating […]
Tags: cancer, center for individualized medicine, DNA Sequencing, Dr. Edison Liu, Dr. Patricia LoRusso, Genome Sequencing, individualized medicine, Individualizing Medicine Conference 2015, mayo clinic, Precision Medicine