Making the maximum use of discoveries that have already been made is a central interest of mine, and a couple of recent articles have described novel ways that targeted therapies might be “discovered” for individual patients. A group at MIT has developed a...
An FDA official recently stated that the final version of the draft guidance regarding regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) is not likely to be released before the end of this year. Elizabeth Mansfield, director of personalized medicine at the FDA’s...
A fascinating article was just published by Ariana Cha in the Washington Post describing how IBM’s Watson is being used at 14 major cancer centers to help interpret genomic data. The program is still in the early stages, which means that Watson is still...
Nature recently published two articles, within a day of each other as it would happen, that describe challenges confronting the two biggest ideas for advancing personalized medicine. One-Person Trials The first idea, described in an article by Nicholas J. Schork,...
The California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine has just been launched, and it is being headed by UCSF’s high profile recent hire, Atul Butte. According to the published statement, the Initiative’s first mission will be to “inventory the...
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