Genomic Medicine
Where:
Medical Education Center, Rm 334
Longwood Avenue
When:
Audience:
This course is targeted to medical students, biomedical scientists, biomedical engineers and instructors of future genomic medicine and related courses. The world-class faculty assembled for this course has been specifically targeted for this audience by virtue of their leadership in this domain and communication/teaching skills
Format: Lectures twice a week with weekly review section. 8 problem sets, no exams.
Pre-requisite: HST 160 or introductory genetics or instructor’s permission.
Enrollment: limited to 30
Some of the questions addressed:
- What real benefits of genomics can be anticipated in the near future in terms of new drugs and treatments?
- Which strategies to date have been the most successful?
- How can diagnosis and the diagnostic process be changed today?
- How do our prognostic abilities change?
- How does one manage the deluge of clinically relevant genomic data?
- What constitutes a genomic clinical trial?
- What are the useful features of alternative genomic technologies today and for the near future?
- What are the different kinds of genomic informational resources and databases? Are they useful and how?
- How can the drug discovery process make better use of genomic information?
- What are the ethical individual and corporate challenges ahead?
- What are the key limitations we face?
Texts:
Genomes (2nd edition), TA Brown
Microarrays for an Integrative Genomics, I. Kohane, A. Kho, A. Butte
Guiding Icarus: Merging Bioethics With Corporate Interests, R. Dhanda, P. Reilly
And 20+ papers
Available also in Boston at Quantum Books and the Harvard Medical Coop
Contact:
Course Director: Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD isaac_kohane@harvard.edu
Website: genomicmedicine.chip.org
