Precision Medicine: Public Health Perspectives - January 30, 2015

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Precision Medicine: Public Health Perspectives - January 30, 2015

Fact sheet: President Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative, the White House, Jan 30

President Obama versus the naysayers: A big week for "precision" medicine, by Mark Wanner, Jackson Laboratory, Jan 30

A new initiative on precision medicine
Francis S. Collins and Harold Varmus, New England Journal of Medicine January 30, 2015

The Precision Medicine Initiative: Data-driven treatments as unique as your own body, Linsay Holtz, the White House, Jan 30

NIH information: the Precision Medicine Initiative

New CDC blog post: The success of precision medicine requires a public health perspective

CDC paper: A population approach to precision medicine. 
Khoury MJ, et al. Am J Prev Med.

CDC paper: The public health role in translating advances in genomics. 
Khoury MJ, Bowen S. Clinical Omics, August 13, 2014

Precision medicine: Improving health and treating disease, by Jo Handelsman, Associate Director for Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology, HHS Blog, Jan 22

US President launches ‘precision medicine’ initiative, The Pharmaceutical Journal, Jan 23

Obama to request research funding for treatments tailored to patients’ DNA, New York Times, Jan 24

The Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act of 2007

Obama precision medicine plan would create huge U.S. genetic biobank, by Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Magazine, Jan 29

Precision Medicine: Cancer and Genomics - January 21, 2015

What is “precision medicine? Information from the National Cancer Institute

Impact of cancer genomics on precision medicine for the treatment of cancer, from the Cancer Genome Atlas, NCI

US precision-medicine proposal sparks questions, by Sara Reardon, Nature News, Jan 22

Obama's 'precision medicine' means gene mapping, NBC News, Jan 21

What is President Obama's 'precision medicine' plan, and how might it help you? By Lenny Bernstein, Jan 21

Obama proposes new Precision Medicine Initiative for genetic treatments,  by Russell Brandom, The Verge, Jan 20

U.S. developing large-scale genomics project, Biocentury, Jan 16

Recent reviews

Companion diagnostics: the key to personalized medicine.
Jørgensen JT. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2015 Feb;15(2):153-6

Promoting precision cancer medicine through a community-driven knowledgebase.
Geifman N, et al. J Pers Med. 2014 Dec 15;4(4):475-88.

Toward a prostate cancer precision medicine.
Rubin MA. Urol Oncol. 2014 Nov 20.

Prioritizing targets for precision cancer medicine.
Andre F, et al. Ann Oncol. 2014 Dec;25(12):2295-303

Toward precision medicine with next-generation EGFR inhibitors in non-small-cell lung cancer.
Yap TA, Popat S. Pharmgenomics Pers Med. 2014 Sep 19;7:285-95.

Genomically driven precision medicine to improve outcomes in anaplastic thyroid cancer.
Pinto N, et al.  J Oncol. 2014;936285

Translating genomics for precision cancer medicine.
Roychowdhury S, Chinnaiyan AM. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 2014;15:395-415

Cancer Precision Medicine: Where Are We? - September 18, 2014

NIH announces the launch of 3 integrated precision medicine trials; ALCHEMIST is for patients with certain types of early-stage lung cancer, August 2014 

National Cancer Institute's Precision Medicine Initiatives for the New National Clinical Trials Network.Jeffrey Abrams et al. ASCO Annual Meeting 2014 

Personalized medicine: Special treatment. 
Michael Eisenstein. Nature, September 11, 2014

Why the controversy? Start sequencing tumor genes at diagnosis. Tumor sequencing at the time of diagnosis can give significant insight for successful cancer treatment, by Shelly Gunn, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Sep 10  

National Cancer Institute information: Precision medicine and targeted therapy

Genomics and precision oncology: What's a targeted therapy for cancer? An updated list of approved drugs from the National Cancer Institute (2014)

Therapy: This time it's personal
Gravitz L Nature 509, S52-S54 2014 May 29

Multi-marker solid tumor panels using next-generation sequencing to direct molecularly targeted therapies 
Michael Marrone, et al. PLoS Currents Evidence on Genomic Tests 2014 May 27

Impact of cancer genomics on precision medicine for the treatment of cancer, from the National Cancer Institute

Cancer genomics and precision medicine in the 21st century  [PDF 2.20 MB], power point presentation from the National Human Genome Research Institute

Personalized Medicine: Opportunities & Challenges - July 2, 2014

The Case for Personalized Medicine - 4th Edition,Personalized Medicine Coalition 2014

Food and Drug Administration Report: Paving the way for personalized medicine  [PDF 854.45 KB] (2013)

CDC paper: A population perspective on personalized medicine

CDC paper: Population sciences, translational research, and the opportunities and challenges for genomics to reduce the burden of cancer in the 21st century.

Policy and health profession must adapt to personalised medicine, PHG Foundation, June 26, 2014

Reading between the lines; understanding drug response in the post genomic era. 
Alifrangis CC1, McDermott U. Mol Oncol. 2014 Jun 10. pii: S1574-7891

How does genome sequencing impact surgery? 
Marlies S. Reimers et al.  Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology 2014 Jun 24

Lung-MAP launches: first precision medicine trial from National Clinical Trials Network, by the ASCO Post, Jun 25