Hello from Boston, and from the 2012 Partners Personalized Medicine Conference, which last week brought together life science thought leaders from business, research and technology. Several themes that emerged from this year’s program:
Genomes, genomes, genomes. Previous personalized medicine conferences had tended to focus on commercialization of and reimbursement for traditional molecular diagnostics. This year, clinical genome sequencing was a pervasive theme, including one panel that featured Stanford University’s Michael Snyder, who had conducted a fascinating longitudinal study of his own genome, transcriptome, metabolome, and other parameters. Snyder said he expects to be interpreting and re-interpreting his genome for the rest of his life. John Lauerman, a reporter for Bloomberg News, had his genome sequenced this year as part of the Personal Genome Project at Harvard Medical School. The sequence revealed he has a variant called JAK2-V617F, which was suggestive of a variety of blood disorders. Lauerman confessed that he had learned much more than he had expected, but still found the experience ultimately rewarding.
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