Cafe Sci Cambridge: Making your medicines personal – Is it all in your genes?

Why do some people respond better to certain medicines than others? Discover how we’re using information from our genes linked to clinical trials of new medicines to understand this.

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Espresso Library, 210 East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1BG

Date:

Wed 10th Apr, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Modern medicine is amazing, but life-saving treatments can still have painful and even dangerous side-effects. However, we can now use information from our DNA to understand why some people respond better to certain medicines than others.

Our April speaker Emma Davenport is a Group Leader at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a world-leading genomics research institute located just outside Cambridge. Emma focuses on the differences in our genomes and how they affect our bodies’ response to particular drug treatments.

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This is a free and non-ticketed event.
Doors open at 18:45 so arrive early to avoid disappointment.
Starts at 19:00 and finish around 20:30.