Tag Archives: genomics

New York Hospitals Searching Genomes, Mayo has Clinic in Operation

April 22nd, 2013 - 2:13 pm

Readers of the New York Times today saw a nice overview story of how the leading research hospitals in the metro area are competing to use genomic and molecular tools to  attack cancers of various types. It’s always good to … Continue reading →

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Mayo’s Individualizing Medicine Conference – Registration Open

March 29th, 2013 - 7:47 am

This week we’ve heard how genomics is helping to determine individual risk predictions for breast, ovarian and prostate cancers, with Mayo Clinic in the forefront of some of those huge studies. That’s a good opener for touting Individualizing Medicine: From … Continue reading →

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Ethics and Genomics

October 2nd, 2012 - 1:52 pm

Hank Greely (J.D.) of Stanford Law School is now on stage, talking without a PowerPoint. That is interesting in itself… but his take on ethics of genome sequencing is direct and also interesting. He predicts that in 10 to 12 … Continue reading →

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Points from the Experts

October 1st, 2012 - 1:30 pm

From the Individualizing Medicine conference in Minnesota — Dr. Jeff Trent, formerly of the National Institutes of Health, and founder of TGen, the genomic research outfit, cited an interesting statistic this morning. Ten years ago doctors were asked whether they … Continue reading →

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Beginning the Conversation – Individualizing Medicine

October 1st, 2012 - 8:39 am

More than 500 people are sitting around me watching the opening videos showing profiles of three composite patients, the examples that will be used as recurring touch points in this Individualizing Medicine conference. Now Dr. Michael Snyder of Stanford has … Continue reading →

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Advancing the Science home for upcoming Individualizing Medicine Conference

September 28th, 2012 - 3:53 pm

This is your home base for insights into what will be happening at next week’s Individualizing Medicine conference at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. From October 1st through the 3rd, experts in genomics will be explaining how the new science is … Continue reading →

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UK’s Guardian newspaper headlines Mayo Individualized Medicine

December 29th, 2011 - 3:39 pm

Mayo’s Center for Individualized Medicine got a New Year’s wave from the Guardian’s Ian Sample. The paper’s science reporter interviewed Center director Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., earlier this month while in London. The outcome is a feature, “Mayo Clinic plans to … Continue reading →

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Mayo Experts Pen Genomics Review in NEJM

March 25th, 2011 - 6:54 pm

Just a heads up here — if you’re wondering what medical genomics has done for you lately, Liewei Wang, M.D., Ph.D., Howard McLeod, Pharm.D., and Richard Weinshilboum, M.D., all of Mayo, have published a review article on Genomics and Drug … Continue reading →

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Translocations in T-cell lymphoma: A first

December 9th, 2010 - 4:11 pm

A Mayo research team recently scored a first that garnered some valuable information regarding biomarkers for T-cell lymphoma, a fatal condition that has a 60 to 70 percent mortality rate. The up side is that this discovery may lead to … Continue reading →

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Major Grant for Alcohol Addiction Studies

January 14th, 2010 - 1:25 pm

David Mrazek, M.D., Chair of Psychiatry and Psychology, recently received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to serve as the Program Director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Alcohol Addiction. The center will conduct pharmacogenomic and … Continue reading →

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