Items Tagged ‘Wyatt Decker MD’
May 1, 2015
“Patients Need Cutting-Edge Research”
By Jeff Briggs 
“Patients need cutting-edge research,” Mayo Clinic vice president and Mayo Clinic Arizona CEO Wyatt Decker, M.D., said after speaking to a full auditorium at the Milken Institute Global Conference this week. Dr. Decker spoke as part of a panel of experts on the topic of “Breakthrough Medicine: Will Finding a Cure Be Just the Start […]
Tags: cancer, center for individualized medicine, Genetics, individualized medicine, personalized medicine, Precision Medicine, whole genome sequencing, Wyatt Decker MD
April 26, 2015
By Jeff Briggs
Earlier this year, President Barack Obama called for a $215 million dollar investment in precision medicine with $70 million of that focused on National Cancer Institute activities to use genomics to improve cancer treatment. Mayo Clinic has been at the forefront of an individualized medicine strategy using state-of-the-art genomics, pharmacogenomics and other approaches for some […]
Tags: cancer, Genetics, Genome Sequencing, individualized medicine, mayo clinic, personalized medicine, Wyatt Decker MD