March 25, 2021
Mayo Clinic, Thermo Fisher Scientific collaborate to benefit patients
By Susan Murphy
By: Suzanne Ferguson| ROCHESTER, Minn. ― Mayo Clinic and Thermo Fisher Scientific have joined forces to bring innovative solutions to patients by accelerating clinical validation, and commercialization of selected next-generation sequencing (NGS), mass spectrometry and immunology diagnostic tools. The Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory in One Discovery Square, which is part of the Destination Medical Center initiative, will […]
Tags: Discovery Square, IndividualizedMedicine, Mayo Clinic Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory
March 7, 2016
Whole-Exome Sequencing: A Rational Approach for ‘Diagnostic Odyssey’ Patients
By Jeff Briggs
A new clinical study from the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine shows that whole-exome sequencing (WES) could serve as a viable diagnostic approach for identifying rare inherited diseases and providing a resolution for patients on a diagnostic odyssey. WES is a laboratory process that determines, all at once, the entire unique DNA sequence (i.e., […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, Dr. Konstantinos Lazaridis, Individualized Medicine Clinic, IndividualizedMedicine, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Precision Medicine, whole exome sequencing
January 29, 2016
By Jeff Briggs
Pharmacogenomics. Try saying that fast three times in a row. That’s probably why all of us here at the Center for Individualized Medicine, or CIM as we commonly refer to it, probably just call it PGx. Occasionally on the CIM blog, we like to take a step back from our updates on genomic biomarkers in […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, Dr. Richard Weinshilboum, IndividualizedMedicine, personalized medicine, PGx, pharmacogenomics, Precision Medicine
January 12, 2016
Mayo Clinic Awarded $5.3 Million Federal Grant to Study Vascular Risk Factors in Dementia
By Jeff Briggs
The Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine and the Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, two of the signature transformational centers at Mayo Clinic, are coming together in a major study on aging and dementia. Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus was recently awarded a $5.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify […]
Tags: aging, Alzheimer’s disease, center for individualized medicine, Center for Regenerative Medicine, dementia, Dr Guojun Bu, Dr Nilüfer Ertekin-Taner, Dr. Melissa Murray, Gerstner Family Career Development Awards, IndividualizedMedicine, Mayo Clinic Brain Bank, National Alzheimer's Project Act
September 19, 2015
Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine Welcomes New NIH Initiative
By Jeff Briggs
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new framework this week for beginning to collect and decode the genetic information of a huge sampling of volunteers over the next three years in an effort to improve health care at an individualized level. Called the Precision Medicine Cohort Initiative, it’s part of the President’s Initiative […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, Dr. Keith Stewart, IndividualizedMedicine, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Precision Medicine, Precision Medicine Initiative
August 10, 2015
Certified Genetic Counselor: Educator, Adviser, Ally
By Jeff Briggs
When a person comes to the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, one of the most important people he or she will meet is a certified genetic counselor (CGC). But what is a certified genetic counselor and why is that person important to the care and treatment a patient will receive at CIM? Specialists who […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, certified genetic counselors, CGC, Genetic Counseling, Genetic Counselors, IndividualizedMedicine, personalized medicine, Precision Medicine
May 15, 2015
Mayo Clinic to Study 10,000 Patients for Drug-Gene Safety
By Jeff Briggs
Today, we have exciting news from the Center for Individualized Medicine. We suspected something was up when we heard Dr. Weinshilboum walking through the halls humming the Bob Dylan folk anthem “The Times They Are a Changin’.” If you care about precision medicine and the role pharmacogenomics plays in the future of health care, they […]
Tags: Biobank, center for individualized medicine, DNA Sequencing, genomics, IndividualizedMedicine, pharmacogenomics
February 26, 2015
By Center for Individualized Medicine
Following the Rare Disease Day theme Living with a Rare Disease, the 2015 video poignantly recognises the millions of families, friends and carers whose daily lives are impacted by rare diseases. A big round of applause goes out to the many individuals involved in the creation of the video. Special thanks to video […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, Genetics, genome, genomic medicine, genomics, individualized medicine, Individualized Medicine Clinic, IndividualizedMedicine, mayo clinic, personal genomics, personalized care, personalized medicine
February 10, 2015
Building a National Cohort for Precision Medicine
By Center for Individualized Medicine
With the State of the Union announcement of the $215 Million Precision Medicine Initiative, one of the most exciting aspects of the Initiative was the call for a national cohort for research and genomic sequencing. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be hosting a two-day workshop starting tomorrow, February 11th, of which […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, DNA, DNA Sequencing, dna test, DNA Testing, gene sequencing, genetic, Genetics, genome, genome science, Genome Sequencing, Genomic
January 30, 2015
National Unveiling of Precision Medicine Initiative
By Center for Individualized Medicine
Former Medical Director of the Center for Individualized Clinic, Gianrico Farrugia, is currently in the East Room of the White House awaiting the unveiling of the Precision Medicine Initiative. Mayo Clinic is excited about the national focus on individualized medicine, and what the future holds with this $215 million investment. The Precision Medicine Initiative […]
Tags: center for individualized medicine, DNA, DNA Sequencing, dna test, DNA Testing, gene sequencing, genetic, Genetics, genome, genome science, Genome Sequencing, Genomic