Subject: Pharmacy
Credit units: 3
Offered: Either Term 1 or Term 2
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
College: Pharmacy and Nutrition
Department: Pharm and Nutr (Dean's Office)

With recent advances in ‘omics’ studies, personalized medicine has become a rapidly growing area in health science. However, it also faces big challenges in clinical practice, such as therapeutic efficacy, patient privacy and cost. In this course, we are going to discuss the basic concepts and progress of personalized medicine, the ‘omics’, biomarker identification, the major challenges for personalized medicine, personalized medicine tests, and examples of personalized medicine practice in cancer, cardiovascular disorder, immune disorder, psychiatry and analgesics/opiates.

Prerequisite(s): PHAR 290.0.
Restriction(s): Completion of Year 1 of the Pharm.D. program is required.

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