‘Personalized Medicine’ Comes to Mt. Sinai

September 21, 2007

The hospital plans to offer a $20 incentive to any patient who donates an eight-ounce vial of blood to a new Biobank, a warehouse of DNA and plasma that is a central component of the hospital’s Institute for Personalized Medicine. “Personalized medicine,” an approach that incorporates molecular analysis into managing a patient’s health, has been touted as the future of medicine ever since scientists completed the map of the human genome in 2003. (New York Sun)