Science Bar "Towards 'à la carte' medicine?"

Thursday, June 14, 2018 from 8:30 pm to 10 pm
Brasserie Le Dôme - 2, avenue Georges Clémenceau - 34000 Montpellier

Personalized medicine, or precision medicine, involves tailoring treatments to the characteristics of individual patients and their diseases. The practical benefits are numerous, since it means moving from ready-to-wear - or standard treatment - to made-to-measure, determined according to 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 his or her individual characteristics. It means being able to classify each patient into a sub-population that differs in its susceptibility to a particular disease, or in its response to a given treatment.

This science-society debate, part of the Pint of Science will be hosted by :

• Alain Thierry - INSERM Research Director at the Institut de Research en Cancérologie de Montpellier IRCM) - Research integrated for personalized medicine in digestive oncology;
• Isabelle Touitou - Professor at the Institute of 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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