“The Dawn of Personalized Medicine”

Understanding Genomics, Epigenomics and Metagenomics for Individual and Public Health Advocacy

Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, has stated that personalized medicine is likely to dramatically alter healthcare in the next few years. In this talk, Dr. Busby would like to tell you why he agrees with Dr. Collins and how individuals’ data can improve public health.

Ben Busby is the Chair of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Department at the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES), housed on the NIH campus, and a researcher in the field of evolutionary genomics. Ben is also a Baltimore Ethical Society Board member.