Challenges for translating pharmacomicrobiomics to personalized medicine
News-Medical.Net | March 02, 2020
A new Commentary identifies three actionable challenges for translating pharmacomicrobiomics to personalized medicine in 2020.Pharmacomicrobiomics is the study of how microbiome variations within and between individuals affect drug action, efficacy, and toxicity. This personalized medicine horizon scanning is featured in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, the peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. Ramy Aziz and Marwa ElRakaiby, Cairo University (Egypt), Mariam Rizkallah, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (Bremen, Germany), and Rama Saad, University of Illinois (Chicago) coauthored the article entitled "Translating Pharmacomicrobiomics: Three Actionable Challenges/Prospects in 2020.