Personalized medicine triumvirate

Three Florida-based institutions are pooling resources in the Personalized Medicine Partnership of Florida, which is tasked with discovering markers that could predict individual responses to drugs for cancer, metabolic diseases and cardiovascular diseases.

PMP Florida combines preclinical research capabilities and technology platforms from the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Florida Hospital's clinical research expertise and patient population, which is one of the largest in the state, and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute's established protocols for obtaining and storing patient samples and data...