Forbes February 15, 2022
The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is launching an Institute for Precision Health. According to the University’s announcement today, the new institute will bring together several of UCI’s strengths – in health sciences, engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, clinical genomics and data science – under the institute’s umbrella, helping advance a rapidly emerging strategy in health care.
Precision Medicine is an approach that’s based on a detailed understanding of an individual’s genes, biological test results, health history, environment, and lifestyle. All this patient data is combined through computer algorithms, predictive modeling and artificial intelligence to arrive at personalized treatment recommendations.
By focusing on how these variables affect a given individual, doctors and researchers can customize treatment and prevention strategies. Rather...