What is Personalised Medicine?
Imagine your medicine being tailored to your exact needs based on your gender, size, genetics and desired drug form.
The traditional medical approach comprises a ‘one-size-fits-all’ application of drugs. This does not consider interpatient variability and, has long been known, may result in significantly different therapeutic outcomes among patients. The ability to provide the optimum dosage and apply an ‘individual’ approach to patients has gained increasing interest due to ongoing development in the field of human genome research and new potential manufacturing technologies, i.e. 3D printing. Providing genetic information on an individual patient level improves decision-making regarding the right active pharmaceutical ingredient, dose, and time required for a specific patient resulting in fewer adverse effects and superior treatment outcomes.
