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VUMC lands renewal of Clinical and Translational Science Award
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has competed successfully for a second renewal of its Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Precision medicine already changing cancer treatment strategies
The ability to test patients’ cancers for individual differences, mainly at the genetic level, and to make treatment decisions based on those differences is the hallmark of precision medicine, and…
Mix-and-match trial is actually precision medicine
A clinical trial that gives drugs for one type of cancer to patients with another type of cancer may seem like a mix-and-match approach, but it’s actually a highly focused precision medicine…