Personalized Medicine Program at ASU Gets 45M
Two Arizona-based philanthropic organizations are contributing $45 million to create a partnership promoting prevention and earlier detection of cancer and other diseases.
The Partnership for Personalized Medicine at Arizona State University will receive $35 million from the Virginia G. Piper Trust and $10 million from the Flinn Foundation to bring together resources to advance a global personalized medicine initiative.
Nobel laureate Lee Hartwell, president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, has been chosen to lead the program. He will be joined by George Poste of ASU’s Biodesign Institute and Jeffrey Trent of the Translational Genomics Research Institute.
The partnership seeks to improve molecular diagnostic testing methods so physicians can precisely tailor prevention, detection and treatment strategies using each patient’s specific physiological characteristics. Much of their work will focus on the identification and validation of protein biomarkers.
The partnership brings together experts in bioinformatics, proteomics, nanotechnology, imaging, genomics and health economics. As one executive board member explained,
“With the team of scientific and clinical research excellence we are assembling, our goal is to transform medicine from the current ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to one that is targeted around a patient’s unique genetic and molecular profile.”
George Poste, DVM, PhD, DSc, FRS
Biodesign Institute, ASU
Source: Arizona State University News
Related Links: kidshealth.org; Philanthropy News Digest; gcir.org; Personalized Medicine Coalition
Related Podcast: Personalized Medicine from Life Sciences Chronicle by the Aesis Research Group
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