Genomic and Precision Medicine: Oncology, Third Edition focuses on the applications of genome discovery as research points to personalized cancer therapies. Each chapter is organized to cover the application of genomics and personalized medicine tools and technologies to a) Risk Assessment and Susceptibility, b) Diagnosis and Prognosis, c) Pharmacogenomics and Precision Therapeutics, and d) Emerging and Future Opportunities in the field.

About the Author
Dr. Ginsburg is the founding Director of the Center for Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine in the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. He is also Professor of Medicine and of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke Pratt School of Engineering, and Co-Director of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute. Huntington Willard is on the faculty of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. Prior to this appointment, Willard was the President and Director of the Marine Biological Laboratory and Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. He was previously on the faculty at Duke University, where he was founding director of the university-wide Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy from 2003 to 2014, the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences, and the Arts & Sciences Professor of Biology & Genome Sciences. John Strickler is Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. Matthew Stuart McKinney is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.


Book Information
ISBN 9780128006849
Author Geoffrey S. Ginsburg
Format Hardback
Page Count 378
Imprint Academic Press Inc
Publisher Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Weight(grams) 750g