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Cystic Fibrosis: Precision Treatment of a Rare Monogenic Disease

October 4, 2023

Presenters at the October 4, 2023 Mini-Symposium: Rhianna Lee, PhD: Developing small-molecule therapies to rescue rare CFTR variants Postdoctoral associate, Duke University, Cell Biology Department Gauri Rao: Personalized medicine, the fight against antibiotic resistance, and precision dosing Associate Professor, USC Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Southern California Adjunct Associate Professor, UNC … Read more

Precision Nutrition: Connections Between Food, Environment, & Health

February 27, 2023

Presenters at the March 22, 2023 Mini-Symposium: • Alice Ammerman, DrPH: Blending Precision Nutrition and Precision Public Health Approaches: “Neighborhood-omics” Mildred Kaufman Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition; Gillings School of Public Health Director, Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, School of Medicine • Susan Sumner, PhD: Metabolic Individuality and Nutrition for Precision Health Professor, Nutrition … Read more

Biomedical Imaging for Precision Diagnosis, Prognosis, & Therapy

November 7, 2022

  Presenters at the November 7, 2022 Mini-Symposium: • Mark Shen, PhD: Longitudinal neuroimaging to study the brain development of infants with neurodevelopmental disorders Assistant Professor, UNC School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry • Eran Dayan, PhD: Artificial intelligence-based stratification of progression along the Alzheimer disease continuum Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Radiology • Andrew Satterlee, … Read more

Machine Learning Tools & Precision Medicine in Clinical Research

May 18, 2022

Presenters at the May 18, 2022 Mini-Symposium: John Sperger: Precision medicine overview and SMART trial designs and how those can be used with ML methods to infer precision medicine decision support Graduate student, Department of Biostatistics Katharine McGinigle MD/MPH & Nikki Freeman: Precision medicine machine learning analytics to improve PAD treatment decisions and outcomes Associate … Read more

Machine Learning Tools & Precision Medicine in Arthritis & Autoimmunity

May 11, 2022

Presenters at the May 11, 2022 Mini-Symposium: Daniel de Marchi: Machine learning didactic overview (unsupervised vs supervised methods, advantages, limitations, & requisite data requirements) Graduate student, Gillings School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics Anna Kahkoska, MD/PhD: Type 1 diabetes phenotypes Assistant Professor, Gillings School of Public Health, Department of Nutrition Amanda Nelson, MD & … Read more

Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing COVID-19

February 23, 2022

Presenters at the February 23, 2022 Mini-Symposium: Melissa Miller PhD and Jeremy Wang PhD: Real-time genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in an academic medical center Professor, Department of Pathology, and Director, Clinical Molecular Microbiology Laboratory (Miller) and Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics (Wang) Ryan Kelly: Predicting the unprecedented: An ongoing saga to forecast the impacts of … Read more

Pharmacogenomics and Decision Support in the EHR

October 27, 2021

Presenters at the October 27, 2021 Mini-Symposium: Daniel Crona, PharmD, PhD: The ongoing quest for perfection – or at least precision – of tacrolimus dosing in bone marrow transplant Associate Professor, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Eshelman School of Pharmacy Klarissa Jackson, PhD: Interindividual variability in drug metabolism: Implications for precision medicine in ethnically … Read more

Precision Medicine Approaches to Addressing Social Determinants of Health

June 30, 2021

Presenters at the June 30, 2021 Mini-Symposium: Gail Henderson, PhD: It shouldn’t take a pandemic: Social determinants of health in the U.S. Professor, Department of Social Medicine and Director, Center for Genomics & Society Emily Vander Schaaf, MD: Healthcare or Health? Clinicians’ Emerging Roles in Addressing Social Needs Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of General Pediatrics … Read more

Machine Learning and Precision Analytics

April 14, 2021

Presenters at the April 14, 2021 Mini-Symposium: Shawn Gomez, PhD: Data-driven approaches towards linking kinotype with phenotype Professor, Pharmacology and UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering Amanda Nelson, MD: Machine learning for phenotyping in osteoarthritis Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology Alex Rubinsteyn, PhD: Machine learning in personalized cancer vaccine … Read more