Conference Scene: Personalized Medicine comes to Harvard

Abstract

The Seventh Annual Harvard Personalized Medicine Conference was held at The Joseph B Martin Conference Center at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA on the 9–10 November 2011. The 2-day conference program was designed to highlight the impact that personalized medicine is currently making clinically as it enters the healthcare delivery system. Going forward, policies, plans and actions of stakeholders including those from government, academia and the private sector need to be informed and guided by recent experience – all of which the conference program set out to explore. The conference attracted over 600 national and international thought leaders all involved in personalized healthcare.