personalized medicine

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Guest:

Dr. Laurence Marton, Program Committee Chairman, PMWC 2012 Bio and Contact Info

Listen (7:24) Theme-Road to Commercialization

Listen (8:36) Difference from Previous Conferences

Listen (4:05) Industry Has Reached a Point of Exponential Growth

Listen (2:28) Genesis of PMWC

There are several conferences on Personalized Medicine each year. Perhaps the best attended is the Personalized Med World Conf taking place in Mountain View California, on Jan 23-24. We invited an advisor to the conference, Dr. Larry Marton, to speak to us about the focus of the upcoming show and what we can expect from this year’s lineup.

Dr. Marton is an advisor to the Personalized Medicine World Conference and joins us now to preview the upcoming conference. Dr. Marton serves as a consultant to industry and to governmental, not-for-profit, and academic institutions. Before moving from academia to industry, Dr. Marton was Dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School and previously Chaired the Department of Laboratory Medicine at UCSF.

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Guest:

Dr. Mike Snyder, Director, Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Bio and Contact Info

Listen (5:06) Stanford's Center for Genomics and PM

Listen (10:05) Quality of Data

Listen (5:38) Thousand dollar genome, million dollar interpretation

Listen (6:35) Not just genomics

Listen (1:27) Why back at Stanford

Listen (2:36) Future of Personalized Medicine

Michael Snyder is the Director of the Center of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford. Dr. Snyder is a leader in the field of functional genomics and proteomics. His laboratory study was the first to perform a large-scale functional genomics project in any organism.

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Guests:

Michael Simpson, CEO, Traitwise.com, Bio and Contact Info

Zack Simpson, Chief Architect, Traitwise.com, Bio and Contact Info

Listen (3:06) Phenotypic data not easy to get your arms around

Listen (4:39) How is a wiki better than current situation?

Listen (4:31) Who uses the site?

Listen (7:42) Site like the perfect spouse

Listen (10:32) Anonymity crucial

Listen (5:08) Quality of data

Listen (6:06) Connection to personalized medicine

We’re joined today by a team of brothers, Michael and Zack Simpson, to talk about their new website, Traitwise.com. Traitwise is a wiki for phenotypic data. Matching up this kind of data with a person’s genomic data has become a major goal of Personalized Medicine.

This podcast was originally aired on Sept. 14th, 2011

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Guest:

Dr. Howard McLeod, Director, PGENI, Bio and Contact Info

Listen (8:13) PGENI - Pharmacogenomics for Every Nation Initiative

Listen (2:27) Piggybacking on HIV education

Listen (7:56) Eight active centers around the world

Listen (5:25) Examples of pharmacogenomics

Listen (3:25) FDA coming aboard

Listen (2:03) PGI at UNC: an interdisciplinary approach

Listen (3:44) The promise of lowering healthcare costs

Listen (3:44) Other ways to use the genome

Our guest today is Dr. Howard McLeod, an internationally recognized expert in pharmacogenomics. He’s the director for the UNC Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy. He’s a member of the FDA’s subcommittee on Clinical Pharmacology, and is the director of the new PGENI, or Pharmacogenomics for Every Nation Initiative. Howard feels he has reached the highest career positions possible and now works to move along the field of pharmacogenomics in the best way possible.

This podcast originally aired on May 25th, 2011

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Guest: Church George, PhD, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences & Technology, Harvard and MIT. Bio and Contact Info

Part I-Personalized Medicine Listen (20:24)

Part II-Synthetic Biology Listen (19:04)

Part III-Personal Anecdotes Listen (06:54)

Our guest for the hour is Dr. George Church from Harvard. Dr. Church’s accomplishments are legendary among scientists in his field and beyond. His Ph.D. from Harvard in biochemistry and molecular biology with Wally Gilbert included the first direct genomic sequencing method in 1984. In 1994, the technology transfer of automated sequencing and software to Genome Therapeutics Corp. resulted in the first commercial genome sequence (the human pathogen, H. pylori). He was then involved in initiating the Human Genome Project as a Research Scientist at Biogen Inc. In 2006 he initiated the Personal Genome Project with the aim of advancing the field of Personalized Medicine. He invented the broadly-applied concepts of molecular multiplexing and tags, homologous recombination methods, and array DNA synthesizers. He has served in advisory roles for 12 journals and 5 granting agencies and also been involved in 22 private companies including LS9-which focuses on bio-petroleum, and Knome who provides full human genome sequencing. Current research focuses on integrating biosystems-modeling with personal genomics and synthetic biology.