PERSONALIZED MEDICINE: STATE-OF-THE-ART AND PROSPECTS

Abstract

A review describes general trends and directions of personalized medicine. These include, but not limited to, prediction of disease based on genomic data, diagnostics and therapy monitoring using genomic and postgenomic technologies as well as therapeutic drug monitoring and regenerative cell technologies. The personalized medicine is considered in terms of results of the Human Genome Project and succeeding Human Proteome Project. An importance of personalized approach for modern medicine is emphasized.