UK Invests in Personalised Medical Projects
The UK’s Technology Strategy Board and the Medical Research Council are jointly investing ?3.7m in seven major research projects for personalised medicine.
The UK's Medical Research Council and Technology Strategy Board will jointly invest ￡3.7m in seven major research projects, which will study and develop personalised medicine. The projects will be lead by pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca UK, GlaxoSmithKline, Ig Innovations, Janssen UK and Randox Laboratories.
Four of the projects will develop the use of biomarkers to predict how groups of patients respond to inflammation and immunology therapies. In this way, therapies could be given only to relevant patient subgroups for better results in alleviating symptoms and side effects.
The other three projects relate to developing
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