主题：The Personalized Medicine Revolution: Are We Going to Cure all Diseases and at What Price?

主讲嘉宾：阿龙·切哈诺沃教授

主持人：黄子为教授

日期：2024年9月1日（星期日）

时间：14:30 - 15:30

地点：综合教学楼C201

语言：英文

摘要：

The realization that patients with apparently similar diseases – breast or prostate cancer, for example - respond differently to similar treatments and their disease course differ vastly, we have recently begun to understand that the underlying molecular mechanisms of what we thought is the same disease, are different in different people. Thus, breast or prostate cancers appear to be sub-divided to smaller distinct classes according to their molecular characteristics and the causing mutations. As a result, we are exiting now the era where the treatment of many diseases is “one size fits all”, and enter a new era of “personalized medicine” where the treatment will be tailored according to the patient’s molecular/mutational profile. The era will be accompanied by complex bioethical problems. Among them is that genetic information of large populations will become available, protection of privacy will become an important issue, and gene editing will have to be tightly regulated. The ethical issues have been accentuated along the recent pandemic, and one example is of course the anti-vaccination movement.

主讲嘉宾简介：

2004年诺贝尔化学奖获得者

以色列理工学院杰出研究教授

香港中文大学（深圳）切哈诺沃精准与再生医学研究所所长