July 16, 2019
Kentucky community hospital develops precision medicine program with help from Mayo Clinic
By Sharon Rosen
Article by Rachel Guibert and Alyson Gonzalez When staff at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Kentucky — a Mayo Clinic Care Network member — decided that they wanted to bring precision medicine to their patients, they turned to Mayo Clinic for help. “We’re a community hospital that doesn’t have the deep resources academically, and in order […]
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July 9, 2019
Mayo experts provide insights into how genes affect medication response
By Sharon Rosen
Pharmacogenomics – how a person’s genes affect medication response – is touching virtually every area of medical care. Findings from the Mayo Clinic RIGHT study (Right Drug, Right Dose, Right Time–Using Genomic Data to Individualize Treatment) showed that 99% of participants had at least one genetic variant that may affect their response to medications. […]
Tags: #addiction, #anti-seizure medication, #Center for Individualized Mediicine, #Dr. Lauren Cornell, #Dr. Sanjay Bagaria, #Dr. William Freeman, #Dr. William Palmer, #drug-gene interactions, #epilepsy, #estrogen receptor positive breast cancer, #medical education, #neurological diseases
December 10, 2018
RIGHT 10K: Blazing a trail to health care’s future
Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine (CIM) is nearing the finish line of the first stage of its unique RIGHT 10K study—an effort that doesn’t involve running shoes but nevertheless is paving the way to prescribing medications matched to a person’s genetic code. RIGHT 10K is a clinical research project to genetically sequence more than10,000 […]
Tags: #Dr. Jessica Wright, #Pharmcogenomics, #RIGHT 10K study, Dr. Eric Matey, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, Precision Medicine
July 3, 2017
Trying to quit smoking? Genetics may help find the right plan for success
By Sharon Rosen
After trying different methods, why do many people have difficulty quitting smoking? That’s a question Rachel Tyndale, Ph.D., is asking as part of her research into smoking cessation therapy. As senior scientist and head of the Pharmacogenetics Lab in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at University of Toronto, Dr. Tyndale is using molecular […]
Tags: #CIMCon17, #DNA analysis, #Dr. J. Steven Leeder, #Dr. Rachel Tyndale, #drug-gene reactions, #Individualizing Medicine 2017, #preemptive pharmacogenomics, #smoking cessation, center for individualized medicine, DNA Sequencing, Dr. Eric Matey, Dr. Liewei Wang
June 30, 2017
Pharmacogenomics – striving for safer, more effective drugs for you
By Sharon Rosen
At Mayo Clinic, pharmacogenomics – how your genes impact the way you process medications – is helping doctors to take the guess work out of selecting safer, more effective treatment for patients. Mayo researchers have been leaders in developing DNA tests and identifying drug-gene interactions that affect a patient’s response to many medications, such as […]
Tags: #CIMCon17, #drug safety, #drug-gene reactions, #Karen Daggett, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Eric Matey, Dr. Liewei Wang, Dr. Richard Weinshilboum, Heart Disease, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Pharmacogenomics Program, medical research
March 30, 2017
Coming to your doctor’s office: the right drug at the right dose for you
By Sharon Rosen
By Susan Buckles We at the Center for Individualized Medicine have big dreams for our patients. One of our aspirations is that all Mayo Clinic patients could get genetic testing to find the safest, most effective medication for them. It’s known as pharmacogenomics – tapping your unique genetic makeup to find precise therapies that work […]
Tags: #drug-gene reactions, #Huffington Post, #PGx testing, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Eric Matey, mayo clinic, medical research, pharmacogenomics
October 18, 2016
Embrace Pharmacogenomics in Your Practice
By Sharon Rosen
Article by Rachel Guibert, Public Affairs Currently, a population with a given disease generally receives the same therapy for all patients. Pharmacogenomics will change this ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to drug treatments. Konstantinos Lazaridis, M.D., Eric Matey, Pharm.D., R.Ph., and Jeffrey Bishop, Pharm.D., M.S., B.C.P.P., are expecting a future practice reality in which clinicians will have every […]
Tags: #Dr. Jeffrey Bishop, #drug-gene reactions, #preemptive pharmacogenomics, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Eric Matey, Dr. Konstantinos Lazaridis, mayo clinic, PGx, pharmacogenomics
May 16, 2016
Improve Outcomes with Clinical Application of Pharmacogenomics
By Jeff Briggs
Your genes determine a lot about how you look. They also play a key role in how medications work in your body. We call that pharmacogenomics — the tailoring of drug treatments to an individual’s genetic makeup. Faithful readers of the Center for Individualized Medicine’s blog know that we have repeatedly come back to […]
Tags: #CIMCon2016, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Eric Matey, Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, Dr. Julie Johnson, Individualized Medicine Conference 2016, personal genomics, pharmacogenomics, Precision Medicine
September 20, 2015
Patient and Public Symposium Recap
By Jeff Briggs
Why is family history important when discussing genomic medicine? What does right drug, right dose at the right time mean? Don’t doctors always do that? Why is my DNA important to understanding and treating my father’s diabetes and my brother’s depression? How can pharmacogenomics help with my mother’s cancer treatment? What the heck does any […]
Tags: cancer, center for individualized medicine, CGC, DNA, Dr. Eric Matey, Dr. Matthew Ferber, Dr. Svetomir Markovic, Dr. Timothy Curry, genetic, Genetic Counseling, genomics, Geoffrey Beek