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University of Colorado Invests Big in a Personalized Medicine Center
Ellen Smith received a death sentence for her advanced lung cancer five years ago, but it was commuted by a revolution in human genetics, drug therapies and clinical approaches unfolding at the University of Colorado Hospital.
The advances have saved her life, by her reckoning, four times.
The accelerating speed of DNA sequencing, drug development and data analysis has led UCHealth, the University of Colorado Medical School and Children's Hospital Colorado to join in an effort to fundamentally change the way they care for patients.
The partnership will invest more than $63 million over the next five years to create a new division, adding clinicians, genetic counselors, researchers and advanced practice nurses — and also expanding a DNA bank and advanced data warehouse. It's called the Center for Personalized Medicine and Biomedical Informatics.
Read the complete story at: http://bit.ly/1nmMyn8
Source: The Denver Post
Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
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