Developments in "-omics" are creating a paradigm shift in laboratory medicine leading to personalized medicine. This allows the increase in diagnostics and therapeutics focused on individuals rather than populations. In order to investigate whether laboratory medicine is ready to play a key role in the integration of personalized medicine in routine health care and set the state-of-the-art know...

Personalized medicine may represent a dramatic change of paradigm in the medium-term future. For a chemist, personalized medicine means the definition and understanding of any disease on molecular level for each individual or group of individuals (personalized diagnosis) ideally leading to the design of a drug that efficiently counteracts or prevents any molecular dysfunction, ie, a personalize...

Personalized medicine may represent a dramatic change of paradigm in the medium-term future. For a chemist, personalized medicine means the definition and understanding of any disease on molecular level for each individual or group of individuals (personalized diagnosis) ideally leading to the design of a drug that efficiently counteracts or prevents any molecular dysfunction, ie, a personalize...

Promising research developments in both basic and applied sciences, such as genomics and participatory health care approaches, have generated widespread interest in personalized medicine among almost all scientific areas and clinicians. The term personalized medicine is, however, frequently used without defining a clear theoretical and methodological background. In addition, to date most person...

The current article outlines the main issues presented during the 4th Up Close and Personalized (UPCP), International Congress on Personalized Medicine, which took place in Tel Aviv (Israel) on 17–20 June 2015. The main topics presented included: phenotypic and ‘omics’ data in the personalized medicine of diabetes, obesity and oncology; updated reports on large-scale human genetics applied to d...

Readers may have noticed a new healthcare catchphrase gracing magazine covers and even the front page of the New York Times: “personalized medicine.”1 But what does it mean and how will it change healthcare? According to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, ‘Personalized medicine refers to the tailoring of medical treatment to the individual characteristics of each pat...