Emerging information shows that healthcare providers successful the UAE are making inroads into precision medicine, a caller methodology which is moving healthcare from a ‘one size fits all’ to a targeted and personalised approach.
In the tract of genetics, the emergence of precision medicine successful the MENA region, which reportedly has a precocious predominance of faulty genes mostly owed to consanguineous marriages, whitethorn payment importantly from a precise important allele notation genome.
“Personalised medicine is surely transforming the healthcare ecosystem for the better, driven by digitalisation and a rapidly rising corpus of cognition that is redefining however we comprehend the origins and improvement of fatal diseases,” said Dr. Maryam Matar, Founder and Chairperson, UAE Genetic Diseases Association astatine the Precision Medicine Exhibition and Summit held successful May successful Dubai this year.
Global information and insights steadfast Netscribes projects the Middle East and Africa precision medicine marketplace to grow astatine a compound yearly maturation complaint of 9.96 per cent to a gross worthy of $2.51 cardinal by 2023.
David Stradling, Event Director of the summit said that the exertion of integer technologies, including AI, large data, and instrumentality learning, is driving precision medicine into the vanguard of caller property healthcare which tailors to idiosyncratic needs, tin amended outcomes and diligent experiences.
Personalised solutions are gaining traction successful genomics and targeted crab therapies, regenerative medicine, and present see a wide scope of diagnostics and treatments for some uncommon and communal diseases.
“GCC healthcare providers person already moved into the PM field, which is expected to turn by 11 per cent annually to 2026 to beryllium worthy US$142 cardinal globally with Dubai’s Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) and the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre successful Saudi Arabia having established biomedical and genomics probe centres and others expected to follow,” helium said.
The UAE is among fewer countries successful the MENA portion which is adopting modern and innovative healthcare approaches to combat specified issues. The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH) precocious launched the archetypal Personalised Precision Medicine Programme for oncology successful the region.
On November 8, Illumina, a steadfast specialising DNA sequencing and array-based technologies launched its new, state-of-the-art solutions centre successful Dubai. “With the increasing request for genomic investigating successful healthcare systems, the Illumina Solutions Centere volition assistance present close and actionable reports to clinicians and their patients,” said Susan Tousi, main commercialized serviceman of Illumina.
Asma Ali Zain is an autarkic writer and a regular contributor astatine Omnia Health.
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