City hospital boosts precision medicine research
There are about 900,000 children born with congenital deformities in China annually with most inherited diseases which need targeted genetic research and precision medicine, experts told the International Pediatric Precision Medicine Forum in the city on Friday.
“Precision medicine has a great opportunity in the prevention and control of congenital deformity, inherited diseases and children’s cancer,” said Dr Yu Guangjun, president of Shanghai Children’s Hospital, which leads the diagnosis and treatment of children’s rare diseases and inherited diseases.
The hospital has established an individualized genetic testing center, a biological database, a big data center for precision medicine and biological medical information research center to support precision medicine and translational medicine. It also combines clinical practice and basic research together for integrated study to speed up the introduction of lab achievements to clinical use.
Also on Friday, Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Pediatric Infection, Immunity and Critical Care Medicine was established at the hospital.
Dr Yu Guangjun, president of Shanghai Children's Hospital.
