🧬 Personalized Medicine Lab
Match your genetic profile to optimal drug therapies using pharmacogenomic predictions
🤔 What Is Personalized Medicine?
Personalized medicine uses your unique genetic makeup to design treatments specifically for you. Instead of one-size-fits-all prescriptions, pharmacogenomics matches medications to your DNA — analyzing gene variants like CYP2D6 and CYP2C19 that control how your body metabolizes drugs. A single SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) can mean the difference between a drug being life-saving or life-threatening.
Why does this matter? Adverse drug reactions kill over 100,000 people annually in the US alone — making it a leading cause of death. By reading a patient's genetic variants before prescribing, doctors can predict which drugs will work, which will fail, and which could cause dangerous side effects. The FDA now includes pharmacogenomic information on the labels of over 300 medications.