Science Bar “Towards ‘à la carte’ medicine?”

Thursday, June 14, 2018, from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Brasserie Le Dôme – 2, avenue Georges Clémenceau – 34000 Montpellier

Personalized medicine, or precision medicine, involves tailoring treatments to the characteristics of patients and their diseases. There are many concrete advantages to this approach, as it amounts to moving from a one-size-fits-all approach—or standard treatment—to a customized approach, determined by the patient's genetic and environmental profile.

The definition of personalized medicine thus refers to the ability provided by genomic tools to choose a treatment for a given patient based on their individual characteristics. It is the ability to classify each patient into a subpopulation that differs in its susceptibility to a particular disease or in its response to a given treatment, which is a significant aid in choosing a treatment.

This science-society debate is part of Pint of Science will be moderated by:

• Alain Thierry – INSERM Research Director at the Montpellier Research Institute (IRCM) – Research for personalized medicine in digestive oncology;
• Isabelle Touitou – Professor at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapies. Head of the Rare and Autoinflammatory Diseases Laboratory.

The evening will be translated into French sign language.

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