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Personalised cancer treatment is one step closer to becoming a reality for more patients, thanks to a Cancer Council Beat Cancer Project grant awarded to University of South Australia researcher Dr Stephanie Reuter Lange to explore how computer-based modelling can optimise cancer treatment and remove the need for expensive clinical trials.

Channels: Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Clinical Trials,

Keywords: Cancer, Cancer Treatment, personalized medicine, Endometrial Cancer

New findings show that individual variations in the brain’s structural connectome (map of neural connections) define a specific structural fingerprint with a direct impact on the functional organization of individual brains.

Channels: Healthcare, Neuro, Personalized Medicine, Technology, PNAS, All Journal News,

Keywords: Brain, Personalized Medicine, Brain Function, Connectome, MRI, Israel

Mayo Clinic is creating a library of genomic sequencing data on 100,000 consented Mayo Clinic participants to advance research and patient care.

Channels: Cancer, Genetics, Healthcare, Personalized Medicine, Embargoed Feed - hidden,

Keywords: Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine, Helix, Precision Medicine, Genomics, whole exome sequencing, Dr. Keith Stewart, Dr. Konstantinos Lazaridis, Marc Stapley

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced today that Dr. Thomas J. Lynch Jr. will become the center’s new president and director. Lynch, a well-known cancer leader with expertise in solid tumor research, precision medicine and immuno-oncology, will join Fred Hutch Feb. 1.

Channels: Cancer, Immunology, Personalized Medicine, Cancer Center Featured Story 2,

A collaborative study of researchers from Thomas Jefferson University, Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine of Temple University, University of Siena, and from the Spanish Center for the Applied Medical Research (CIMA) of the University of Navarra have discovered a novel targetable axis in mesothelioma patients.

Channels: Cancer, Healthcare, Personalized Medicine, Genetics, All Journal News,

Keywords: mesothelioma patients, Mesothelioma

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected Joshua C. Denny, MD, MS, vice president of Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), to be the Chief Executive Officer of the federal All of Us Research Program.

Channels: All Journal News, In the Workplace, Personalized Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH),

Keywords: All of Us Research Program

NCCN Guidelines for Genetic/Familial Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian, and Pancreatic updated with new and expanded sections on risk assessment and management related to three major cancer types.

Channels: Cancer, Genetics, Personalized Medicine, Women's Health, Cancer Center Featured Story 2,

Keywords: NCCN, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Breast Cancer, Personalized Medicine, nccn guidelines, genetic assessment, Familial High-Risk, Ovarian Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Cancer Screening, Cancer Risk

Ge Wang, the Clark and Crossan Endowed Chair of biomedical engineering and director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

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Keywords: National Academy of Inventors (NAI), academic inventors

The lack of understanding of health providers and patients is a major barrier to the integration of genomics into personalized medicine. This innovative certificate program will provide health professionals and scientists with the requisite skills they need to interpret and incorporate this new knowledge into a patient care model that emphasizes individually tailored prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Channels: All Journal News, Back to School, Education, Genetics, Healthcare, Personalized Medicine,

Keywords: Graduate Courses, Higher Education, Genomics, Predictive Health, Certificates, Personalized Medicine, big data analytics , Medicine, Healthcare, Science, Biomedical Science, Doctoral Students, Certificate Programs, Biotechnology

Researchers from Penn State College of Medicine identified a new gene mutation that may cause a type of familial thyroid cancer.

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Keywords: Cancer Research, Thyroid, Thyroid Cancer