Healthcare IT News November 27, 2019
The center will use precision genomics to discover, address and treat genetic diseases, many of which affect infants and children and can cause life-long disability.
Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, along with University of Utah Health, and Intermountain Precision Genomics are teaming up to launch a pediatric center for personalized medicine that will serve the Intermountain West.
WHY IT MATTERS
The center will use precision genomics to discover, address and treat genetic diseases, many of which affect infants and children and can cause life-long disability.
The Center will focus on precision diagnosis, gene therapies and novel therapeutics, and stem cell, immunologic and regenerative medicine.
Precision medicine includes applications across diagnostics, prevention and screening that takes into account individual variabilities in genes,...