Science Bar: “Toward ‘À la carte’ Medicine?”

Thursday, June 14, 2018, from 8:30 p.m. to 10:00 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 numerous practical benefits, as this approach represents a shift from “off-the-shelf”—or standard—treatments to customized treatments determined by the patient’s genetic and environmental profile.

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

This science-society debate, which 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 Gastrointestinal Oncology;
• Isabelle Touitou – Professor at the Institute of Regenerative Medicine and Biotherapies. Head of the Rare and Autoinflammatory Diseases Laboratory.

French Sign Language interpretation will be provided during the event.

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