Personalised medicine

Short description

Personalised medicine takes into account individual patients with their genetic conditions and aims at a targeted therapy.

Synonyms

Individualised medicine

Detailed description

In contrary to standard therapies, which work for some patients but not for others, the goal of personalized medicine is a tailored therapy. On the one hand, living conditions and the patient’s gender are considered as they influence drug effect. On the other hand, DNA sequencing contributes to gaining additional information on the patient and the pathogen, which can be consulted for therapy decision.

Transmission electron microscopy image of spherical cytomegalovirus virions grown in tissue culture. The virions are digitally stained blue.

A virus lurking in the connective tissue

It was previously believed that herpesviruses use certain body cells to replicate and other body cells to remain dormant, that is to remain inactive for a longer period of time. This dogma is now

Nov 2022

BMJ Open

Individualised immunosuppression with intravenously administered donor-derived modified immune cells compared with standard of care in living donor kidney transplantation: protocol for a multicentre, open-label, phase II, randomised controlled trial

Autoren

Morath C et al.

University of Cologne

Development and integration of advanced diagnostics into routine clinical care (INTEGRATE)

By applying innovative diagnostic methods such as rapid point-of-care tests, multi-omics technologies as well as novel predictive models, clinical management and thus most likely treatment outcomes can be improved. In addition to the high information content of these new methods, the prompt ...