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Medical Genetics
Medical Genetics: involves the application of genetics to medical care, including research on the causes and inheritance of genetic disorders, and their diagnosis and management.
JUN 20, 2019 | 10:30 AM
Tumor mutational burden (TMB) is an emerging biomarker that correlates with response to immunotherapeutic agents, such as checkpoint inhibitors. Recent studies indicate that a high mutation l...
JUN 20, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Recent advances in genomic technologies have revealed enormous complexities and uniqueness of human physiology. Although enormous efforts are being made to apply this knowledge to enhance the...
JUN 20, 2019 | 9:00 AM
The NIH put Precision Medicine on the map as a revolutionary way to manage disease, delivering the right treatment, to the right patient, at the right time. But what does Precision Medicine r...
JUN 20, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: June 20, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDTRetinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are projection neurons that process and transmit visual information from the retina to the brain. In a group of disea...
JUN 20, 2019 | 7:30 AM
Most cancer therapies have highly variable activity from one patient to another, with only a fraction of patients’ cancers responding to a given treatment. In many types of cancer, comb...
JUN 20, 2019 | 6:00 AM
Virtually all tumors are genetically heterogeneous, containing subclonal populations of cells that are defined by distinct mutations. Subclones can have unique phenotypes that influence disea...
JUN 20, 2019 | 6:00 AM
Inherited disorders affect millions of people globally. These diseases significantly impact lives of patients and their families, and in addition, also results in substantial socio-economic i...
JUN 19, 2019 | 11:00 AM
DATE: June 19, 2019TIME: 11:00am PDT, 2:00pm EDT Abstract:...
JUN 19, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: June 19, 2019TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT As we develop new methods to create more biologically relevant models for research in understanding disease etiology and in...
JUN 19, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: June 19, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT Approximately 80% of all cancers are known to be affected by both somatic mutations and copy number changes. Furthermore, r...
JUN 18, 2019 | 4:00 PM
DATE: June 18, 2019TIME: 7:00am PDT, 10:00 EDT, 4:00pm CET PSCs represent an important tool in a wide range of applications, including basic research, disease modeling, drug...
JUN 05, 2019 | 5:00 PM
DATE: June 5, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT, 5:00pm CEST Eukaryotic cell cultures respond to the most subtle influence. Apart from the risk of contamination, minimal chan...
MAY 09, 2019 | 1:30 PM
C.E. CREDITS
In 2014, the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), which is funded by the NIH, was established as a network of seven clinical sites, two sequencing cores, and a coordinating center. Later, a ce...
