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December 10, 2022
Jason Ezra Hawkes, MD, MS, FAAD, board-certified dermatologist and subordinate prof of Dermatology astatine the University of California Davis successful Sacramento, spoke connected the advancement successful precision medicine wrong dermatology and what relation genetics, research, and immunology tin person for attraction absorption going forward.
Precision medicine is advancing quicker than ever earlier successful dermatology, and this is of utmost value for definite analyzable dermatologic conditions that person proven hard to recognize and manage, said Jason Ezra Hawkes, MD, MS, FAAD, board-certified dermatologist and subordinate prof of Dermatology astatine the University of California Davis successful Sacramento.
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What are your thoughts connected the aboriginal of therapeutic innovation successful dermatology?
I'm conscionable excited astir each of the therapies that are coming into dermatology. I deliberation it's a precise breathtaking time, wherever precision medicine is truly starting to happen. We're talking astir personalized therapies for definite types of diseases. And I deliberation the immunology is truly catching up to what we person successful the clinic. And that's been successful portion owed to immense probe advances and technological advances wherever what we couldn't bash 5 years ago, adjacent a mates of years ago, we're starting to bash today. So, it's a truly breathtaking time.
We're advancing medicine quicker than we person successful the past wherever probe was chiefly performed oregon done successful silos. Small groups, studying things successful their laboratory with groups of 8 to 20 people, but present we're successful large medicine wherever ample companies and organizations are looking astatine large data. They're coupling with instrumentality learning and artificial intelligence.
So, I deliberation we tin commencement to tackle immoderate of these truly analyzable aesculapian dermatologic conditions, and truly commencement to tease retired subtleties that we couldn't look astatine oregon recognize what we were looking astatine with a tiny microscope, but present we've got the powerfulness to commencement to tease retired however bash the genetics truly play a relation with environment, etc. So, I conscionable deliberation this is the opening of medicines that are going to beryllium truly targeted and highly effective, and it's conscionable an breathtaking clip to beryllium successful aesculapian dermatology close now.
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