Items Tagged ‘medical research’
July 30, 2019
Community voices guide use of biobank samples in research
By Sharon Rosen 
Article by Caitlin Doran Mayo Clinic supports biobanks — large collections of patient biological samples—near each of its three campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota, with the goal of advancing research to broaden the understanding of health and disease. Paired with each biobank, Mayo fields a community advisory board (CAB), whose members are recruited from […]
Tags: #Arizona State University, #Bioethics at the Cinema, #Center for Individualized Medicine Bioethics Program, #Mayo Clinic Biobank, #Mountain Park Health Center, #Rochester Public Library, #Sangre Por Salud Biobank, Barry Hall, Bioethics, center for individualized medicine, Community Advisory Boards, community outreach
June 28, 2019
Can BioBanks Help Close Gaps in Health Outcomes?
By definition, personalized medicine requires diversity. One-size-fits-all doesn’t work for every individual, especially members of groups that are medically underserved. In collaboration with Arizona State University and Mountain Park Health Center (MPHC) in Phoenix, Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine has created a biobank to enhance the diversity of Mayo’s medical research. Sangre Por Salud (Spanish for […]
Tags: #Arizona State University, #diabetes, #disease risk, #Dr. Richard Caselli, #Giovanna Moreno Garzon, #Health Disparities, #high blood pressure, #Mayo Clinic Biobank, #Mountain Park Health Center, #obesity, #Sangre Por Salud, #underserved populations
June 24, 2019
Medicine and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Tensions
By Sharon Rosen
While artificial intelligence is already transforming health care by improving diagnostic accuracy and speeding the analysis of biological and genomics data to better understand disease, there are many ethical issues that should be considered. This was the message that Mayo Clinic bioethicist Richard Sharp, Ph.D., shared with attendees at the first Mayo Clinic Artificial Intelligence […]
Tags: #Artificial Intelligence, #Center for Individualized Medicine Bioethics Program, #Genomics data, #Mayo Clinic Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Bioethics, center for individualized medicine, computer models, Dr. Richard Sharp, Genetics, genomics, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Artificial Intelligence Symposium
May 7, 2019
Targeting bile duct cancer – meet Mitesh Borad, M.D.
By Sharon Rosen
The search for treatment targets for patients with bile duct cancer, also known as cholangiocarcinoma, has taken a 360 degree turn, offering new hope for patients. That’s according to Mitesh Borad, M.D., deputy director for Center for Individualized Medicine Biomarker Discovery Program at Mayo Clinic’s Arizona campus, Dr. Borad and his colleagues are using new […]
Tags: #Dr. Mitesh Borad, #liver cancer, #targeted therapies, bile duct cancer, Biomarker Discovery Program, cholangiocarcinoma, fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitors, Genetic Testing, genomics, Liquid biopsy, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine
April 2, 2019
Purna Kashyap, M.B.B.S. – testing the bugs within to maintain health, detect and treat disease
By Sharon Rosen
The use of microbiome testing – which analyzes the trillions of bacteria in and on the body – is on the move. It’s going from the research lab into the clinic to help guide patient care. DNA testing technologies have revolutionized researchers’ ability to identify individual bacterial strains driving disease. Now genomic testing is helping […]
Tags: #blood sugar levels, #Center for Individualized Medicine Microbiome Program, #diabetes, #digestive health, #glucose levels, #inflammatory bowel disease, #obesity, #personalized diet, c. difficile, center for individualized medicine, colorectal cancer, Dr. Purna Kashyap
March 5, 2019
By Sharon Rosen
Space-age technologies, DNA sequencing and artificial intelligence – all tools for discovery that Nicholas Chia, Ph.D. and his team are using to push the envelope and improve care for complex diseases like colorectal cancer. They’re collaborating with scientists from NASA to uncover how the microbiome – the trillions of microbes in and on the body […]
Tags: #ecology, #genomic testing, #Kidney stones, #microbial ecology, #systems biology, bacteria, colorectal cancer, DNA Sequencing, Dr. Nicholas Chia, gut bacteria, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine
December 3, 2018
Meet Sanjay Bagaria, M.D.: new CIM associate director in Florida
By Sharon Rosen
Hindsight is 20/20.That saying rings true for surgical oncologist Sanjay Bagaria, M.D. As a premedical student at University of Michigan, he chose to major in Japanese studies, mastering thousands of characters and a new grammar structure to read the Japanese literature he loved. Looking back, that experience gave him the tools to view not only […]
Tags: #Associate director Center for Individualized Medicine, #basal-like breast cancer, #Dr. Sanjay Bagaria, #hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) surgery, #Mayo Clinic Campus in Florida, #surgical oncologist, biomarkers, center for individualized medicine, mayo clinic, medical research
November 19, 2018
Gene therapy: potential and pitfalls
Research is advancing gene therapy as a possible treatment or eventual cure for genetic diseases that bedevil modern science. Gene therapy was conceived over 20 years ago, and until recently, remained largely in the research lab. But gene therapy products are now beginning to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for clinical […]
Tags: #Brittle bone disease, #CAR T-cell therapy, #Dr. David Deyle, #gene therapy, Dr. Saad Kenderian, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, medical research
November 5, 2018
Pharmacogenomics: finding the right drug, dose for cancer therapy
By Sharon Rosen
Each year, nearly 300,000 patients receive the lifesaving chemotherapy 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) to treat many types of cancer, including colorectal, breast, bowel, skin, pancreatic, and esophageal cancer. While it can be an effective treatment, it doesn’t work for everyone. In fact, up to 30 percent of those who receive the standard dose can have serious, life-threatening […]
Tags: #5-fluorouracil, #5-FU chemotherapy, #chemotherapy side effects, #DPYD gene, #drug-gene interactions, #gene verifier model, breast cancer, chemotherapy, colorectal cancer, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine
October 15, 2018
Personalized screening: finding and treating breast cancer sooner
By Sharon Rosen
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to reflect on new, individualized approaches to detecting and treating a cancer that affects 1 in 8 American women. Deborah Rhodes, M.D. and her Mayo Clinic colleagues are working to identify the best targeted screening tools and guidelines for women with a higher risk of developing breast […]
Tags: #breast cancer screening, #dense breast tissue, #Dr. Deborah Rhodes, #Dr. Michael O'Connor, #Dr. Myra Wick, #molecular breast imaging, 3-D mammograms, breast cancer, breast density, center for individualized medicine, Dr. Carrie Hruska, mayo clinic