November 4, 2019
By Sharon Rosen
This past summer, Monika Kizerwetter arrived on Mayo Clinic’s campus in Rochester, Minnesota, and Hsuan-Yu (Taylor) Chen came to Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus – each ready to work alongside leading medical researchers. But their experience extended far beyond the laboratory. They each saw firsthand how teams of researchers and physicians collaborate to fuel discoveries that […]
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August 20, 2018
Preparing the next generation – interns engaged in precision medicine research
By Sharon Rosen
When Zachary Stephens started his summer internship at Mayo Clinic in 2013, he was thrust into a world where solving big data challenges can lead to more individualized care for patients. As a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was used to developing computer models to analyze […]
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February 9, 2017
Education is a key link in bringing genomic discoveries into patient care
By Sharon Rosen
When it comes to precision medicine, the learning never stops. Discoveries in genomic medicine are coming so quickly and regularly that medical students, trainees and practicing providers must continually stay abreast of new genomic discoveries in order to understand how these advances can impact the care they provide to patients. “The huge challenge is that […]
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January 24, 2017
Researchers find protein that weakens severe sepsis immune reaction
By Sharon Rosen
There are no effective treatments for sepsis, a serious inflammatory reaction to infection, which can lead to death for up to half of the 3 million Americans afflicted each year. Sepsis most commonly occurs in young or older patients, whose immune system is unable to function normally to fight infection. Researchers at Mayo Clinic’s campus […]
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