{"id":2991,"date":"2009-08-28T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2009-08-28T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T17:01:51","slug":"a-big-step-towards-personalized-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/08\/28\/a-big-step-towards-personalized-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"A big step towards personalized medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssHealthcareNews\/idUSN2744434020090827\" target=\"_blank\">An agreement<\/a>\u00a0 in which Abbott Laboratories will develop a specific genetic test to screen non-small cell lung cancer tumors to identify potential patients for a proposed oral cancer\u00a0drug \u00a0being developed by Pfizer, was hailed as an important development in the new era of personalized genomic medicine, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/pulmonary\/people\/avrumspira\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avi Spira, MD.\u00a0<\/a> He is Associate Professor of Pathology andLaboratory Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is a very big step if they can first identify the subset that will benefit prior to treatment.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Contact Avi Spria, 617-414-6980, <a href=\"mailto:aspira@bu.edu\">aspira@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement\u00a0 in which Abbott Laboratories will develop a specific genetic test to screen non-small cell lung cancer tumors to identify potential patients for a proposed oral cancer\u00a0drug \u00a0being developed by Pfizer, was hailed as an important development in the new era of personalized genomic medicine, by Avi Spira, MD.\u00a0 He is Associate Professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1645,1646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}