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University of Geneva

Precision Medicine

This course will provide you with the key knowledge and tools to understand the fundamentals and practical implications of precision medicine, its opportunities and challenges. It will address precision-medicine era diagnostics, treatment selection, genetic counseling, public health interventions, and biomedical research. It will also deal with data science and ethical issues. From genomic analysis and genetic counseling to cancer biomarkers, from risk assessment of chronic diseases to the understanding of gene-environment interactions, from pharmacogenomics to multi-omics data integration, experts will walk you through the many aspects of precision medicine, from the bench to the bedside and to population health. Designed for students with a bachelor-level training in life sciences, this course will also be useful for professionals who are increasingly expected to deal with precision medicine, including primary care physicians and other first-line healthcare professionals, cancer and non-communicable diseases specialists, public health policy and decision makers, as well as biomedical researchers and drug developers. Experts from the multiple domains of genetics and genomics, oncology, pharmacology, data sciences, ethics, and biomedical research will provide you with a comprehensive, multi-faceted overview of precision medicine, richly illustrated with practical examples and clinical case studies, and peppered with formative evaluations. Whether you are interested or intrigued by topics such as “genethics”, the analysis of exome sequencing, precision diabetes management, hereditary cancers, the ongoing revolution of genetic technologies, genome-exposome interactions, the pharmacogenetics of opioids, data deidentification, blockchain-base patient-consent documentation, or proteomics and biomarkers, this course will explain the concepts, offer insights and present concrete examples, thus providing you with an overall understanding of the rapidly evolving field of precision medicine. - update - The contents of this course have been updated and important corrections have been implemented thanks to learners' feedback. Many thanks to them!

Status: Data Ethics
Status: Biomedical Technology
IntermediateCourse28 hours

Featured reviews

EO

5.0Reviewed Jan 7, 2024

This is a high information rich domain of Medical practice. Learnt a lot of new technologies and approaches to disease management and treatment.

KO

5.0Reviewed Jul 2, 2023

you deserve a 5 star. The course is so amazing and well explored by well composed instructors who used different methods to make the concept easy to grasp.

AK

5.0Reviewed May 25, 2022

W​ell organised course in terms of content coverage and evaluation.

S

5.0Reviewed Jul 20, 2023

very nice course give such an informative knowledge by giving various practical examples which are very useful in learning this course

GU

5.0Reviewed Mar 4, 2025

Excellent course! I liked the instructors and the way the course was presented, and the material was very interesting!

SS

4.0Reviewed Aug 17, 2025

The teaching could have been more interactive and more fun. it got a bit monotonous sometimes, but otherwise it was a great course.

MQ

5.0Reviewed May 21, 2025

The course material and videos were very informative and helped me in developing new insights in the field

MB

5.0Reviewed Dec 7, 2021

Fabulous and greatly assembled course, although I'd recommend it for professionals engaged in the field.

FH

5.0Reviewed Aug 15, 2022

in this course i have been open minded about how most of treatement are taken as for all which is very wrong and i have understood that each person is unquie.

WW

5.0Reviewed Jan 2, 2025

Great course! Well taught and good level of testing. I felt like I learned a lot :)

UP

5.0Reviewed Sep 21, 2025

It´s a good way to introduce in the precision Medicne world, great course!

OA

5.0Reviewed Aug 29, 2022

Well suited to my the current stage of my careerDemystified precision medicine

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