EU RESEARCH PROJECT TO BOOST PERSONALISED MEDICINES BY TRAINING JOINT STATISTICS AND GENETICS EXPERTS
July 1st, 2013
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project will seek to boost personalised medicines development by training specialists in both genetics and computerised statistical techniques. Participants in the EU’s EUR3.7 million MLPM2012 project have concluded that the dearth of researchers with expertise in both fields restricts personalised medicine creation. A European Commission note said: “Many methodological problems remain to be solved” with too few methods delivering “a causal understanding of the underlying disease mechanisms, including gene-gene and ...
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