Precision Medicine

Education, Infrastructure Key to Precision Medicine Adoption

by Jessica Kent

To increase precision medicine adoption, healthcare leaders must build education among patients and providers, implement advanced infrastructure, and boost patient engagement, according to a report...

Genomic Data Advances Precision Medicine for Prostate Cancer

by Jessica Kent

As disease treatments continue to advance and become more personalized, researchers are increasingly relying on genomic data to accelerate the development of precision medicine for a range of...

UCLA Uses $29M Gift to Establish Precision Medicine Center

by Jessica Kent

UCLA has received a $29 million gift to establish a precision medicine center where scientists can leverage big data and genomic technologies to improve genetic disease treatment and diagnosis. The...

Precision Medicine Program Analyzes Diverse Genetic Dataset

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have analyzed diverse genetic datasets in an effort to advance precision medicine for minority populations. The early analysis is...

Precision Medicine Platform Aims to Advance Cancer Gene Therapies

by Jessica Kent

A team from Cleveland Clinic has developed a precision medicine platform designed to accelerate cancer gene therapies and genome-informed drug discovery. In a study published in Nature Genetics,...

Intermountain Launches Precision Medicine Study on Genetic Diseases

by Jessica Kent

Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital has launched the HerediGene: Children’s Study, an effort to speed the development of precision medicine therapies for children with genetic...

Genetic Database May Enable Precision Medicine for COVID-19

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham have created a genetic database designed to help advance precision medicine treatments for COVID-19. The database, called PAGER-CoV-2, includes...

Henry Ford Opens Facility to Advance Cancer Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

The Henry Ford Cancer Institute at Henry Ford Health System has launched the Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion, a facility that will include specialty clinics for 14 different types of cancer, precision...

Gene Involved in Breast Cancer Growth May Speed Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

A team from UT Southwestern (UTSW) has found that a significant number of breast cancer patients have higher levels of the ZMYND8 gene, making it a potential target for immunotherapies and precision...

ONC Enters Next Phase of Genomic Data Sharing Pilot Project

by Jessica Kent

ONC is currently recruiting additional demonstration sites for phase four of its Sync for Genes pilot project, an effort to standardize and improve genomic data sharing between laboratories, providers,...

Providers Seen as Less Liable for Following AI Recommendations

by Jessica Kent

Potential jurors may not be strongly opposed to providers’ acceptance of artificial intelligence medical recommendations, indicating that clinicians may be less liable for medical malpractice...

Cancer Database Paves the Way for Precision Medicine Therapies

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins departments of oncology and pathology, the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine, and 18 other organizations...

Discovery of New Alzheimer’s Subtypes May Speed Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

Using data from RNA sequencing, a team from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has detected three molecular subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease that could advance precision medicine...

Genomic Data Analysis May Inform Prostate Cancer Risk Scores

by Jessica Kent

Analyzing genomic data from diverse populations could improve prostate cancer risk scores and enable early detection of the disease, a study published in Nature Genetics revealed. Prostate cancer is...

VA Broadens Clinical Data Access to Improve Patient Outcomes

by Jessica Kent

The Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem (VHA IE), a division of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is partnering with MDClone to enhance patient outcomes by increasing clinical...

New Tool Could Advance Precision Medicine for Incurable Diseases

by Jessica Kent

A new tool that focuses on RNA could accelerate the development of precision medicine treatments for incurable diseases, including a type of metastatic breast cancer, according to a study published in...

“All of Us” Precision Medicine Program Returns First Genetic Results

by Jessica Kent

NIH’s All of Us precision medicine research program is beginning to return genetic results to participants, with individuals now able to receive information about their genetic ancestry and...

Biomarker Identifies Patients Who Don’t Respond to Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

Researchers from Penn Medicine have discovered a new biomarker that identifies which patients with aggressive lymphoma won’t respond to a precision medicine treatment called ibrutinib. The...

Precision Medicine Method May Reduce Glaucoma-Related Blindness

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are creating a precision medicine method to determine patients’ genetic risk of developing glaucoma, with the goal of reducing...

$1.3M Grant Will Advance Precision Medicine for Pediatric Cancer

by Jessica Kent

Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania (CHOP) and Gustave Roussy, a cancer research organization based in France, have received a $1.3 million grant from neuroblastoma clinical research charities to...