Items Tagged ‘Dr. Stephen Thibodeau’
July 8, 2021
New biorepository will serve as critical resource
By Susan Murphy 
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 […]
Tags: Biorepository, bioresearch, Dr. Aleksandar Sekulic, Dr. Stephen Thibodeau
May 15, 2019
One year in, All of Us Research Program makes strides in diverse health research
For far too long, biomedical research has been based on a small subset of the United States population, leading to prevention and treatment methods that are often one-size-fits-all. To address this issue, the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program is working to build a cohort of one million or more participant partners […]
Tags: All of Us Research Program, Dr. Mine Cicek, Dr. Stephen Thibodeau, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, National Institutes of Health
June 4, 2018
Article by Barbara Toman Just as money in the bank boosts your financial well-being, biobanks have the power to impact your health. Think of biobank samples as assets that researchers can draw upon to improve disease treatments. One such withdrawal from the Mayo Clinic Biobank yielded a key breakthrough in diabetes research. Adrian Vella, M.D., […]
Tags: #All of Us Research Program biobank, #Mayo Clinic Biobank, All of Us Research Program, Diabetes research, Dr. Adrian Vella, Dr. Stephen Thibodeau, Genomic Research, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, medical research
April 6, 2017
Mayo Clinic investigators share precision medicine research and practice at 10th ISABS Conference
By Sharon Rosen 
Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine physicians and scientists will join Nobel Prize winners and other worldwide leaders in precision medicine in presenting the latest research and application to patient care. Twelve people from the Rochester, Florida and Arizona campuses are featured speakers at the Individualized Medicine Lectures at the 10th International Society for Applied […]
Tags: #Dr. Grzegorz Nowakowski, #Dr. Jan Van Deursen, #Dr. Stanimir Vuk-Pavlovic, #Dr. Tamas Ordog, #Dr. William Faubion, #International Society for Applied Biological Sciences, #ISABS Conference, center for individualized medicine, Dr Nilüfer Ertekin-Taner, Dr. Eric Klee, Dr. George Vasmatzis, Dr. Gianrico Farrugia
January 17, 2017
Should healthy people consider genetic testing?
By Sharon Rosen
Advances in genomic technology have made DNA tests faster and less expensive. That puts genetic testing within reach for many patients. But, if you’re healthy, should you consider DNA testing as part of your routine care? Could understanding your genetics improve screening, diagnosis, treatment or maybe even prevent you from developing a disease such as […]
Tags: #disease predictors, #Dr. Noralane Lindor, #Genetic data, #Genetic diseases, center for individualized medicine, DNA Testing, Dr. Stephen Thibodeau, Genetic Testing, mayo clinic, medical research, whole genome sequencing
October 27, 2016
Mayo Clinic biorepository earns high accreditation honors
By Sharon Rosen
Biospecimens, such as tissue, blood and plasma, provide a window into health and disease. They are used in research to improve patient care – from finding genomic links to disease, to testing new drugs or developing new therapies. So it is essential that biospecimens be stored in biorepositories that maintain the highest quality standards to […]
Tags: #Biorepository accreditation, #College of American Pathologists, #Mayo Clinic Biobank, #PrecisionMedicine, Biobank, Biorepository, Biospecimens, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Stephen Thibodeau, individualized medicine, mayo clinic
September 12, 2016
Mayo Clinic’s Collaboration with iSpecimen® May Bolster Research
By Sharon Rosen
Article by Susan Buckles, Public Affairs iSpecimen®, a privately held biomedical company, has announced a new collaboration with Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine to make serum from cancer patients more readily available to scientists. Bringing together patient samples, scientists and biomedical business is an important step toward advancing research into personalized treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s […]
Tags: #CIMCon16, #Genomics data, #iSpecimen, #PrecisionMedicine, Biospecimens, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Stephen Thibodeau, Genomic Research, mayo clinic
June 22, 2016
National Institutes of Health Chooses Mayo Clinic for Biobank, But What Is a Biobank?
By Jeff Briggs 
On May 26, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Mayo Clinic $142 million over five years to serve as home for the 1-million-person Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) biobank. Precision Medicine Defined: Precision, or personalized medicine, is a model of care that customizes medical treatment to each individual. To illuminate differences and similarities in health […]
Tags: Biobank, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Mine Cicek, Dr. Stephen Thibodeau, individualized medicine, mayo clinic, National Institutes of Health, NIH, personalized medicine, PMI, Precision Medicine, Precision Medicine Initiative
May 26, 2016
Mayo Clinic to be Home of National Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program Biobank
By Jeff Briggs
Mayo Clinic will be awarded $142 million in funding over five years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to serve as the national Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program biobank. The biobank will hold a research repository of biologic samples, known as biospecimens, for this longitudinal program that aims to enroll 1 million or […]
Tags: Biobank, Biospecimens, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Francis Collins, Dr. John Noseworthy, Dr. Keith Stewart, Dr. Mine Cicek, Dr. Stephen Thibodeau, National Institutes of Health, NIH, PMI, Precision Medicine
September 15, 2015
By Jeff Briggs
A Mayo Clinic research team with substantive support from to the Center for Individualized Medicine received a four-year, $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the genetics of two common genetic disorders. The Mayo investigators successfully renewed the Mayo Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) grant to enter into the […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, Dr. Iftikhar Kullo, Dr. Stephen Thibodeau, EHR, electronic health record, eMERGE, eMERGE Network, National Human Genome Research Institute, NHGRI, NIH