Scottish Government awards £3m to University of Glasgow for personalised medicine research
Clare Morrison
Corresponding AuthorClare Morrison was The Pharmaceutical Journal's Scotland correspondent from 2002 until August 2014. Clare currently works for the NHS as a primary care pharmacist, and has previously held a variety of posts in pharmacy journalism and community pharmacy. She is a stage II member of the RPS Faculty and is qualified as an independent prescriber. Clare lives near Inverness.
New funding has been awarded to the University of Glasgow for the development of personalised medicines. The £3m investment will be used to fund imaging equipment to study the genetics of large groups of patients to find ways of predicting which medicines will be efficient and effective.
Announcing the Scottish Government funding on 2 March 2014, health secretary Alex Neil said: “Personalised medicine holds huge potential in the development of new treatments for diseases such as cancer. It is one of the most significant advances in 21st century health research as it looks to move away from the one-treatment-fits-all approach to one where a patient’s specific genetic make-up determines the most appropriate treatment.”
Citation: The Pharmaceutical Journal DOI: 10.1211/PJ.2014.11135381
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