CSU2015014 Personalised Medicine – the future treatment paradigm
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Personalised medicine is a rapidly developing and growing field. Advances in genomic and clinical science have created innovative opportunities to tailor health care to each patient. Personalised medicine is a strategy based on individual phenotyping of profiles rather than the long established 'one-size-fits-all' approach. It is based on a multidisciplinary approach translating advances in basic science and drug discovery and development into clinical practice.
It has wide implications for public health, preventive interventions and for the rational design of screening programmes. The collaboration between disciplines is reflected in the curriculum of the present course, which is of relevance for persons engaged in research, clinical medicine, the pharmaceutical industry as well as those involved in health care administration and politics.
Personalised medicine identifies elements that predict the individuals' predisposition to disease and their response to treatment. The relatively new tools and methods of personalised medicine integrate genomic information with clinical and custom laboratory data, which enables classification of unique disease susceptibility, better diagnoses, earlier interventions, targeted and more efficient drug therapies and customized treatment.
What will you learn
After the course you will have acquired:
- An overview of the toolbox of personalised medicine.
- An understanding of challenges and pitfalls in the analyses and interpretation of “big data”.
- Knowledge on the practical translation of research findings into clinical practise.
- An understanding of genomics, epigenomics and pharmacogenenomics and how these have been or can be implemented in clinical medicine.
- Insight into how principles of personalised medicine have been used to develop drugs and change treatment regimens to target therapy and improve outcomes.
- Insight into the future perspectives of personalised medicine.
Course content
This course will provide insights into key principles and give a
practical understanding of the concept of personalised medicine.
The course will take you through important aspects of the strategy
of personalised medicine from an overview of methodological
principles, advances in research and application of these into
daily clinical practice of medicine and drug development. The
teaching style is interactive and includes a combination of
lectures, discussions, group work and case studies/exercises.
The topics include:
- Individual phenotyping
- Genomic medicine
- Epigenetics
- Pharmacogenomics
- Methodology in genome sequencing: understanding the basics
- Challenges and pitfalls in statistical analyses of genomic data
- Use of “big data” to develop a concept of personalised medicine
- Imaging in personalised medicine
- Using already developed medicines as part of a personalised medicine concept
- Novel drug discoveries aimed for personalised medicine
- Technologies to personalise the surgical procedure
- From research to clinic - translation of results to daily clinical practice
- The role of personalized medicine in research, prevention and
tailored treatment of
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Cancer
- Immune deficiency
- Transplantation
- The perspective of the industry on personalised medicine
- Public health: towards intelligent screening programmes and preventive interventions
- Personalised medicine and health economics
- Future perspectives of personalised medicine – in 10, 20 and 30 years
Participants
The course is for professionals working in the field of
medicine, bioinformatics or related health sciences (e.g. public
health, humane biology and biotechnology), persons with special
interest in technical aspects of health and medicine and persons
from the pharmaceutical industry. It will also be of interest to
those working in ministerial departments and the regions. The
course offers an excellent introduction for those less familiar
with the concept of personalised medicine and will provide a deeper
understanding for health professionals with experience within the
field.
Participants must hold at least a relevant bachelor degree or
equivalent
See "What will you learn"
- Category
- Hours
- Class Instruction
- 35
- Preparation
- 10
- Total
- 45
- Credit
- 0 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Course participationNone
- Marking scale
- Without assessment
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Criteria for exam assesment
None
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- CSU2015014
- Credit
- 0 ECTS
- Level
- Part Time Master
- Duration
- 5 days
- Placement
- Summer
17 – 21 August 2015
- Schedule
- 9:00 – 17:00
- Course capacity
- 24 participants
- Continuing and further education
- Price
EUR 2,600/DKK 19,000 (excl. Danish VAT 25%).
- Study board
- Income-generating activities
Contracting department
- Department of Clinical Medicine
Course responsibles
- Jens Lundgren (13-726d767b36747d766c6f7a6d76487a6d6f71777670366c73)