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Laboratory Medicine
Laboratory Medicine: is where clinical tests are carried out to obtain information about the health of a patient to aid in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
JUN 20, 2019 | 10:30 AM
In this presentation, Dr. Kothari will provide an overview of the Precision Medicine Initiative from NIH and how NGS technologies have helped the researchers to look deep inside the human tra...
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 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 | 11:00 AM
DATE: June 18, 2019TIME: 11:00am PDT, 2:00pm EDT With highly competitive NIH budgets and ever-increasing restrictions on federal spending, getting noticed and winning...
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 30, 2019 | 7:30 AM
The ultimate limits of diagnostics in biology are the “quantum” units that convey information, e.g. single nucleic acids, proteins, and cells. Microfluidics has emerged as a power...
