Personalized Medicine Program

Project Description Narrative:

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A fundamental principle underlying personalized medicine is that genomic sequence, in combination with gene annotation and the growing medical literature, can increase our understanding of how genes contribute to produce disease, can be used to improve medical diagnosis of disease, and can improve the selection of therapeutic interventions having the greatest likelihood of reducing the disease burden or perhaps delaying the onset of disease. With this genomic data on hand, it may be come increasingly possible to predict a patient's risk for disease, enabling health care to move from reactive medicine to prospective medicine.

However, in order for personalized medicine to become a reality, many steps are needed. Through this award, the Medical College of Wisconsin Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center will build on its role as a leader in the development of personalized medicine by developing the infrastructure to improve laboratory flow and data analysis pipelines, as well as rich data resources.