PHAR 211

With recent advances in ‘omics’ studies, personalized medicine has become a rapidly growing area in health science. However, it also faces big challenges in clinical practice, such as therapeutic efficacy, patient privacy and cost. In this course, we are going to discuss the basic concepts and progress of personalized medicine, the ‘omics’, biomarker identification, the major challenges for personalized medicine, personalized medicine tests, and examples of personalized medicine practice in cancer, cardiovascular disorder, immune disorder, psychiatry and analgesics/opiates.