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
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 […]
Tags: #CIMCon2015, center for individualized medicine, Dr. E. David Litwack, Dr. Edison Liu, Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, Dr. J. Craig Venter, Dr. Olga Golubnitschaja, Dr. Patricia LoRusso, Dr. Stephen Friend, Dr. Stephen Quake, Dr. Vincenzo Costigliola, individualized medicine
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 […]
Tags: Caer Rohrer Vitek, cancer, Cathy Wurzer, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Alexander Parker, Dr. David Litwack, Dr. Edison Liu, Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, Dr. J. Craig Venter, Dr. Keith Stewart, Dr. Patricia LoRusso, Dr. S
September 25, 2015
Individualizing Medicine 2015 Comes to an End
By Jeff Briggs
Over 800 people from 31 states and 10 countries attended this year’s Individualizing Medicine Conference: From Promise to Practice. They heard presentations from over 125 experts about how individualized medicine can fulfill the promise of moving from the laboratory bench of the research to the bedside of the patient. After an opening symposium for the […]
Tags: cancer, center for individualized medicine, Dr. J. Craig Venter, Epigenomics, Gianrico Farrugia, individualized medicine, pharmacogenomics, Precision Medicine
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 […]
Tags: cancer, Cathy Wurzer, Dr. Alexander Parker, Dr. David Litwack, Dr. Edison Liu, Dr. J. Craig Venter, Dr. Stephen Quake, Genome Sequencing, genomic medicine, genomics, individualized medicine, Individualized Medicine Conference 2015