Items Tagged ‘genomics’
December 7, 2017
Liquid biopsies: detecting and treating cancer sooner
By Sharon Rosen What if a blood test could discover cancer before a tumor first appears or before the first signs of cancer recurrence are seen by a radiology study? In fact, these types of blood tests, often called liquid biopsies, are already changing clinical care for patients with cancer. Researchers and physicians in Mayo […]
Tags: cancer, Center for Individualized Medicine, DNA testing, genomics, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, Minetta Liu
September 7, 2017
MUNEER SATTER–Genes made personal through foundation’s support
Muneer Satter’s first interest in medicine wasn’t rooted in genomics. It was in seeing the health care needs of his loved ones and of the world’s most vulnerable. In his professional life, before making investments in biotech, he sought out the opinions of expert doctors at Mayo Clinic. “The more I talked to doctors, the […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, genomics, Individualizing Medicine Conference
May 4, 2017
Precision care for heart disease – a practical approach
Article by Sharon Rosen Heart disease can sometimes be a silent killer. Many of us know seemingly healthy people who’ve suddenly or unexpectedly had a heart attack. It can be shocking when people who are at a a healthy weight and exercise regularly die from heart disease that they never knew they had. Many forms […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, genetics, genomics, heart disease, precision medicine
February 23, 2017
Advancing genomics into patient care: a preview of Individualizing Medicine 2017
One of the highlights of the year for those of us at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine is the yearly Individualizing Medicine Conference. It’s a very exciting time for us as we share with you the latest discoveries in personalized patient care. This year’s conference already has a great line up of thought-provoking […]
Tags: All of Us, Center for Individualized Medicine, genomics, individualized medicine, Individualizing Medicine Conference, personalized medicine
April 1, 2015
Individualized Medicine’s Latest Computational Consortium
By bobnellis 
Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine — with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Chicago — is establishing a National Science Foundation Industry/University Collaborative Research Center called the Center for Computational Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, or CCBGM. The goal is to study the applicability, timeliness, efficiency, and accuracy of the computational infrastructure […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, genomics, medical genomics, precision medicine
May 6, 2014
Register for Individualizing Medicine 2014 – Don’t miss out
By bobnellis
Make plans now to attend Mayo Clinic’s third annual Individualizing Medicine Conference this fall in Rochester, Minnesota. This is the conference where you can learn about the latest in medical genomics and how it is being translated into medical practice. I always say it’s where doctors learn what their patients are going to be asking them […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, genomics, individualized medicine, Individualizing Medicine Conference, medical genomics, microbiome, pharmacogenomics
April 22, 2013
New York Hospitals Searching Genomes, Mayo has Clinic in Operation
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 see the Times is keeping track of science in its own back yard. It’s all […]
March 29, 2013
Mayo's Individualizing Medicine Conference – Registration Open
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 Promise to Practice scheduled for this fall. The focus is to convey to physicians how […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, Eric Green, genomics, individualized medicine, personalized medicine, pharmacogenomics
October 2, 2012
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 years, most people will have their whole genomes recorded in their medical records. To get […]
Tags: biomedical ethics, Center for Individualized Medicine, genomics, individualized medicine
October 1, 2012
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 felt comfortable talking to their patients about genetics. Only one in ten said that they […]
Tags: Center for Individualized Medicine, genomics, individualized medicine