Co-curated with Washington University in St. Louis
The ultimate goal of Precision Medicine, also referred to as Personalized Medicine, is to enable the use of
information about a patient’s genes and environment. Physicians and scientists can utilize this data
to more accurately identify or predict disease, delay or prevent the onset of disease, and develop more
effective treatment. This could be aided by sciences like genomics, developing technology to better parse
massive data sets, and by improving our understanding of the relationship between differences in DNA
and basic biological mechanisms. Precision Medicine faces challenges, however, related to the
healthcare workforce, costs, equal access to care, and data privacy
