Friday, April 17, 2015
Yesterday the Consortium hosted the final event in the 2014-15 Lecture Series on Law, Health & the Life Sciences. An overflow crowd of researchers, physicians, pharmacologists, informaticists, genetic counselors and others had the opportunity to hear about work being led by Dr. Muin Khoury of the Centers for Disease Control and the National Cancer Institute to fulfill the promise of genomic medicine across large populations. Dr. Douglas Yee of the University of Minnesota's Masonic Cancer Center provided commentary from the perspective of as a practicing physician who also conducts research and leads a comprehensive cancer center.