![Precision medicine, an approach that uses targeted therapy to treat individual patients, includes a field called pharmacogenomics. Looking at a patient’s DNA to see how it affects the way they respond to drugs, pharmacogenomics is now also being used at UMMC in the treatment of psychiatric conditions.](/news/News_Articles/2021/09/Images/eCV_precision_medicine_art.jpg)
Psychiatry can match drugs to DNA for made-to-measure treatments
Monday, September 27, 2021
At sixteen letters, it’s a long term with long-term implications: pharmacogenomics. At the Medical Center, it has extended its reach to the practice of psychiatry, enabling prescribers to better assign medications to patients, side-stepping side effects and expanding the potential for more personalized care.
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