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Dr. Daniel Brazeau will be giving a lecture entitled  “The Genomoics Revolution and Personalized Medicine” on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, from 6-9pm, in the Health Sciences Library.

Genomics” has revolutionized the biological and biomedical sciences, perhaps the pharmaceutical sciences most of all.  While much public press has concentrated on pharmacogenetics and “personalized medicine” this is the one area where advances may be the least certain.  Pharmacogenetics seeks to provide patients efficacious therapeutic agents with minimal adverse drug reactions based on their genotype.  However, the complexity of the human genome and the extensive genetic diversity among human populations often results in confusing relationships between patient drug response and genotype.  Pharmacogenetics will contribute greatly to improved theapeutics but it requires a more realistic understanding of the role environmental factors, multiple genes with multiple arients, and hman population genetic structure play in predicting individual drug efficacy and toxicity.

Dr. Brazeau is a Research Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UB, and director of the Pharmaceutical Genetics Lab.   His research interests include population genetics of natural populations, DNA forensics, and the evolution of reproductive strategies in marine invertebrates.

RSVP by November 18, 2009

$15 Members
$20 non-Members
$  9  Students
$  5  Lecture only (no buffet)

Presented by the Friends of the Health Sciences Library

To register or get more information, contact Linda Lohr at 716-829-3900 x136,   lalohr@buffalo.edu.