Institutional Profile: Golden Helix Institute of Biomedical Research: Interdisciplinary Research and Educational Activities in Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine

Abstract

The Golden Helix Institute of Biomedical Research is an international non-profit scientific organization with interdisciplinary research and educational activities in the field of genome medicine in Europe, Asia and Latin America. These activities are supervised by an international scientific advisory council, consisting of world leaders in the field of genomics and translational medicine. Research activities include the regional coordination of the Pharmacogenomics for Every Nation Initiative in Europe, in an effort to integrate pharmacogenomics in developing countries, the development of several National/Ethnic Genetic databases and related web services and the critical assessment of the impact of genetics and genomic medicine to society in various countries. Also, educational activities include the organization of the Golden Helix Symposia®, which are high profile scientific research symposia in the field of personalized medicine, and the Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics Days, an international educational activity focused on pharmacogenomics, as part of its international pharmacogenomics education and outreach efforts.

Fast And Frugal Trees: Translating Population-Based Pharmacogenomics to Medication Prioritization

“…In the immediate future, we anticipate that the PGENI genotype database will continue to be updated, thus allowing data to be used with region or country specificity [43,44]. Region-specific genotype data could therefore Fast & frugal trees Research Article be incorporated into the pre-selection of FFT trees.…”

“…Since regions have genetic variability the frequency of pharmacogenomics markers will affect response to medications in specific (sub) populations. The aim of PGENI is to collect and use these frequency rates in each country/region to inform optimal dosing strategies, even in the absence of patient-specific genotyping [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44].…”

6th Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics Day: pharmacogenomics and individualized therapy

“…The Golden Helix Pharmacogenomics Days are international educational scientific meetings that are organized by the Golden Helix Institute of Biomedical Research [ 1 , 2 ] jointly with the local academic institutions in major cities with large academic hospitals. The aim of these meetings is to provide timely updates on the field of pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine to the local biomedical scientists, healthcare providers and biomedical students in order to educate and inform them on the application of pharmacogenomics in modern medical practice and to bring together faculty members from universities and research institutes from the local scientific arena working in the field of pharmacogenomics in order to initiate collaborative projects in this field to the benefit of the society.…”

Pharmacogenomics in the psychiatric population

“…The Golden Helix Institute of Biomedical Research has deployed several genomic databases as a web service so that healthcare providers and researchers can access the many studies and results. 3 This type of intercommunication and sharing of information is essential to the field of pharmacogenomics as it moves forward. The summary herein is focused on psychiatric patients and the medications that are typically used.…”