The Sperling Family Fellowship in Precision Healthcare, organized by BWH and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, combines the strengths of each institution to advance a translational research project with the potential to transform patient care. The 2017 recipient of the Sperling Family Fellowship...
Research consortium led by Brigham and Women’s Hospital identifies 13 new genetic regions associated with COPD and shared risk factors for pulmonary fibrosis Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death in the United States, yet there are no effective medicines that...
Robert C. Green, MD, Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, discusses the implications of legislative changes both broadly as well as for his sequencing project, BabySeq, which sequences the genomes of babies shortly after birth, and how they may impact the decision to participate in...
White House and NIH Precision Medicine Initiatives Must Prioritize the Inclusion of Women and Focus on Sex and Gender The Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women's Health & Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a national leader in advancing gender-based research, released a report “Precision Medicine: How...
The right treatment for the right patient at the right time. That’s the mantra of what’s being called precision medicine. To date, though, imprecision medicine might be a better moniker. Precision medicine aims to be a transformative paradigm that moves away from the “one-size-fits-all” approach in which...
Oliver Jonas, PhD, MA, a laboratory director in the Department of Radiology, is taking precision medicine to new levels to fight cancer. He has developed a tiny device, smaller than a grain of rice that, once implanted into part of a tumor, releases small doses of...