【Master Forum/大師講堂】The Personalized Medicine Revolution: Are We Going to Cure all Diseases and at What Price?
Topic:?The Personalized Medicine Revolution: Are We Going to Cure all Diseases and at What Price?
Speaker:?Prof. Aaron Ciechanover
Host:?Prof. Ziwei Huang
Date:?Sunday, September 1st, 2024
Time:?2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue:?Room 201, Teaching Complex C
Language:?English
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Abstract:
The realization that patients with apparently similar diseases – breast or prostate cancer, for example - respond differently to similar treatments and their disease course differ vastly, we have recently begun to understand that the underlying molecular mechanisms of what we thought is the same disease, are different in different people. Thus, breast or prostate cancers appear to be sub-divided to smaller distinct classes according to their molecular characteristics and the causing mutations. As a result, we are exiting now the era where the treatment of many diseases is “one size fits all”, and enter a new era of “personalized medicine” where the treatment will be tailored according to the patient’s molecular/mutational profile. The era will be accompanied by complex bioethical problems. Among them is that genetic information of large populations will become available, protection of privacy will become an important issue, and gene editing will have to be tightly regulated. The ethical issues have been accentuated along the recent pandemic, and one example is of course the anti-vaccination movement.
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Speaker Profile:
Prof. Aaron Ciechanover
2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Distinguished Professor of Research, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Director, Ciechanover Institute of Precision and Regenerative Medicine, CUHK-Shenzhen, China?
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