Microarrays in Personalized Medicine- $200M-US Aided Personalized Medicine Program
Posted Sep 28 2008 5:21pm
I have written quiet often about this subject and companies that promises solution for personalized medicine. especially the use of genomics information in organ transplant patients and cancer treatment. XDx and Genomic Health are two such companies . XDX has applied microarray, to monitor the immune system, with the help of Gene expression to address the challenge of balancing the risk of acute cellular rejection against the known adverse effects of immunosuppressants; especially inexpression testing for patients with heart transplants. Genomic Health provides individualized genomic profiling of tumor tissue may help improve cancer management.
personalized medicine is still dismissed of by many as the cost are still high, and there are very few trained physicians who can use this extra information for better clinical outcome.
US institutesBiodesign Institute at Arizona State University, Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterTranslational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), the Institute for Systems Biology, and the Partnership for Personalized Medicinewill help the government of Luxembourg start a three-pronged, $200 million-plus biomedical initiative focused on harnessing genomics technologies to study human health problems.
For those who wants to cry foul that genomic information can lead to discrimination against individuals by insurance companies or others can take solace on GINA . In may 21.2008 President George Bush has signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) that will protect Americans against discrimination based on their genetic information when it comes to health insurance and employment.
The most immediate benefit of GINA is to remove barriers to identifying individuals at high risk for diseases due to genetic mutations before the onset of the disease
I have written quiet often about this subject and companies that promises solution for personalized medicine. especially the use of genomics information in organ transplant patients and cancer treatment. XDx and Genomic Health are two such companies . XDX has applied microarray, to monitor the immune system, with the help of Gene expression to address the challenge of balancing the risk of acute cellular rejection against the known adverse effects of immunosuppressants; especially inexpression testing for patients with heart transplants. Genomic Health provides individualized genomic profiling of tumor tissue may help improve cancer management.
personalized medicine is still dismissed of by many as the cost are still high, and there are very few trained physicians who can use this extra information for better clinical outcome.
US institutesBiodesign Institute at Arizona State University, Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterTranslational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), the Institute for Systems Biology, and the Partnership for Personalized Medicinewill help the government of Luxembourg start a three-pronged, $200 million-plus biomedical initiative focused on harnessing genomics technologies to study human health problems.
For those who wants to cry foul that genomic information can lead to discrimination against individuals by insurance companies or others can take solace on GINA . In may 21.2008 President George Bush has signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) that will protect Americans against discrimination based on their genetic information when it comes to health insurance and employment.
The most immediate benefit of GINA is to remove barriers to identifying individuals at high risk for diseases due to genetic mutations before the onset of the disease
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