Items Tagged ‘#Dr. Lisa Schimmenti’
October 4, 2018 · Leave a Comment
Meet Lisa Schimmenti: Searching for drug therapies to treat hearing loss
By Sharon Rosen 
Lisa Schimmenti, M.D. has always been fascinated with Helen Keller and all she accomplished, in spite of being blind and deaf from a very young age. As the newly appointed chair of Mayo Clinic’s Department of Clinical Genomics and a medical geneticist, Dr. Schimmenti cares for patients with similar conditions. In her clinical practice, she sees […]
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December 22, 2016
By Sharon Rosen
Approximately 30 million people in the United States suffer from rare diseases that may have a genetic basis, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine investigators are expanding their efforts to help these patients by participating in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network International (UDNI). This international research network is aimed […]
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