Sentences with phrase «for genomic medicine»

She described the rationale for genomic medicine as a strong platform for delivering value - based health care in the context of causes of death and illness and of health industry's top issues.

The Co-Chairs for the 2018 AGBT General Meeting are: Eric Green (National Human Genome Research Institute / National Institute of Health) Elaine Mardis (The Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital) and Len Pennacchio (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

In September 2012, he joined Center for Genomic Medicine at RIKEN as Team Leader of Laboratory for International Alliance.

He currently, holds a joint post-doctoral research position in the labs of Peter Kharchenko, Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and Dr. Roy Perlis, Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Lauren Petersen, a professional mountain bike racer and a postdoctoral associate at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut, has sampled cyclists» feces to determine what makes the top athletes» microbiomes unique.

Dr Sid Banka from the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine at The University of Manchester, led a team of researchers on the study which is published in Annals of Rheumatic Diseases journal.

After a comprehensive search process, Stephen F. Kingsmore, MD, DSc was appointed as the inaugural President and CEO of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine in September 2015.

Support for this study was provided by the National Cancer Institute (grant numbers U01CA176058, U01CA199253, and P01CA154303) and the Slim Initiative for Genomic Medicine in the Americas, a project funded by the Carlos Slim Foundation.

The CMO told the genomics inquiry that NHS England plans for the Genomic Medicine Service will be operational by mid-2018 and «mainstreaming» by mid-2019.

This is a very practical recommendation; whilst the lag in NHS digitisation can not fail to have an impact on plans for genomic medicine, confirming budgets would at least lay the groundwork for closing this gap.

The paper sets out the essential elements for harnessing data for genomic medicine, as well identifying current legal and regulatory challenges associated with genomic data sharing,

Career counselor Melanie Sinche, however, has spent 2 decades helping scientists at institutions including the University of North Carolina, Harvard University, and the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine navigate the job market.

Lead authors of the study, Ivan P. Gorlov, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Christopher Amos, Ph.D., Professor of Community and Family Medicine and Director of the Center for Genomic Medicine described a new method to analyze microarray data.

Hopes for genomic medicine have grown in the past few years as researchers raced to track down DNA behind common diseases.

But you know the idea of direct - to - consumer for genomic medicine, in particular for pediatric genomic medicines or decoding children's genomes, is something that gives me shivers.

Capture and disseminate best practices for genomic medicine (in bioinformatics, education, evidence, pharmacogenomics, policy) across the global genomic medicine community.

«I was impressed to see that UCSF Health leadership was conscious of the need for someone to organize and centralize its excellent existing genetics services and coordinate communication about needs and opportunities for genomic medicine across the institution.»

In particular, it should publicise the consent framework to be used for the Genomic Medicine Service as soon as possible.

Data sharing for genomic medicine is gaining ground as a hot topic — running through both the Chief Medical Officer's (CMO) Annual Report — Generation Genome, and the report published this week by the National Data Guardian (NDG) for health and social care on Developing consensus on data sharing to support NHS clinical genetics and genomics services.

Significant digital infrastructure is needed but unfortunately the wider improvement of NHS data systems is running to a later timeframe than that needed for a Genomic Medicine Service beginning in 2018.

Dr. Julie Gastier - Foster is the Senior Director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine Clinical Laboratory and Vice Chair of Laboratory Genetics in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Next - gen sequencing technologies have introduced two paradigm shifts for genomic medicine.

In 2011, Dr. Green led NHGRI to the completion of a strategic planning process that yielded a new vision for the future of genomics research, entitled Charting a course for genomic medicine from base pairs to bedside (Nature 470:204 - 213, 2011).

We will describe how existing technologies and standards support clinical decision support for genomic medicine, and conclude with a specific case study that highlights both the challenges and opportunities inherent in the realization of genomic health.

Position: Professor of Computational Biology Organisation: Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine Area of work: Data linkage

David Bick, MD, is the chief medical officer and faculty investigator at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, the Medical Director of The Smith Family Clinic for Genomic Medicine and assistant laboratory director of the HudsonAlpha Clinical Services Lab, LLC.

A team of researchers from UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine found that mice that ate 7 - 10.5 percent of their total calories as walnuts developed fewer colon cancers.

«Medical breakthroughs stemming from a deeper understanding of our genomic blueprint — and the blueprints of other species — have created a watershed moment for genomic medicine.

Dr Siddharth Banka, Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, who led the study, explained: «Our team has identified that this new syndrome is caused by a small deletion on chromosome 6 that affects the function of hypothalamus, a region of the brain that plays a number of important roles in the body.»

For those who missed the announcement earlier this month: our center's director Rick Wilson and co-director Elaine Mardis announced that they're leaving to establish a new Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital / Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

The Knowledge Portal is also funded by the Slim Initiative for Genomic Medicine in the Americas (SIGMA), which supports research on the genetics of T2D in Hispanic populations as well as a Spanish - language version of the Portal.

«Because there are currently no effective drugs for liver fibrosis, we believe our findings would open a new door for treatment,» says senior author Ronald M. Evans, a professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory and lead researcher in the Institute's new Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine.

Cancer Translational Genomics (Elaine Mardis, The Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Chair)

Sparked from the efforts of the T2D - GENES Consortium (Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Next - generation sequencing in multi-Ethnic Samples; T2D - GENES) to aggregate and share results from large - scale T2D sequence and genotype datasets, the prototype T2D KP was built with seed funding from the NIDDK via the T2D - GENES Consortium and the Slim Initiative for Genomic Medicine in the Americas for T2D (SIGMA T2D).

* Dr. Lee was recently named to lead the scientific effort at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine in Farmington, Conn., beginning Aug. 1, 2013.

«Our paper reports that two highly conserved pathways — the UPR and the nonsense - mediated RNA decay pathway — intersect with each other at a pivotal point in cell stress,» said Miles Wilkinson, PhD, senior author and professor in the Department of Reproductive Medicine and a member of the UC San Diego Institute for Genomic Medicine.

«Artificial intelligence (AI) has huge potential to revolutionize disease diagnosis and management by doing analyses and classifications involving immense amounts of data that are difficult for human experts — and doing them rapidly,» said senior author Kang Zhang, MD, PhD, professor of ophthalmology at Shiley Eye Institute and founding director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

«Even when the genes driving cancer are known, clinicians don't have an efficient way to choose among the hundreds of possible drug therapies,» said study leader Kai Wang, PhD, associate professor of biomedical informatics and director of clinical informatics at the Institute for Genomic Medicine at CUMC.

«Our study found that the ability to balance on one leg is an important test for brain health,» said Yasuharu Tabara, Ph.D., lead study author and associate professor at the Center for Genomic Medicine at Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in Kyoto, Japan.

The work and the researchers involved were supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowship, a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Postdoctoral Training Award, and the Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine.

The mission at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine is to discover the complex causes of disease and develop diagnostics and therapeutics, to empower the global medical community and Connecticut's growing bioscience industry.

The spleen's mechanisms for responding to blood - borne antigens mirror those in immune responses in other sites of the body, and could potentially be harnessed to prevent life - threatening immune responses in patients requiring frequent blood transfusions, researchers at Yale University School of Medicine (Yale), The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) for Genomic Medicine, UConn Health and other institutions report.

In a previous study, Shaw, an associate professor in Salk's Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory and researcher in the Institute's new Helmsley Center for Genomic Medicine, demonstrated that cells lacking a normal copy of the LKB1 gene fail to activate AMPK in response to low energy levels.

Shimul Chowdhury, director of the clinical laboratory at the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, presented data today (October 19) on six case studies of NICU infants at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Orlando.

A team led by Sekar Kathiresan — founder of the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, institute member and co-director of the Medical and Populations Genetics Program at the Broad Institute, and director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital — and Rajat Gupta, a postdoctoral research fellow in Kathiresan's lab, recently revisited this spot in the genome to map it and determine the mechanisms by which one DNA variant could affect so many disorders.