Personalized Prescriptions
In this video, Dr. Scott Kuhns (Amgen, Process Development, Director) explains how genomic variants can lead to different outcomes in patients following the same pharmaceutical regimen. Dr. Kuhns also describes what personalized prescriptions are, and how personalized prescriptions can lead to the same desired therapeutic outcome across individuals having different genotypes, particularly in the case of codeine metabolism.
Topics
- ALXCollab
- Amino acid substitution
- Codeine
- Codeine metabolism
- Codeine metabolizer
- CYP2D6
- Cytochrome P2D6
- Dosage
- Drug
- Drug treatment
- Enzyme
- Genes
- Genomic variant
- Genotype
- Individual drug treatment
- Morphine
- Pain
- Pain treatment
- Personalized prescription
- Pharmaceutical regimen
- Phenotype
- Prescription
- Therapeutic benefit
- Therapeutic outcome
- Treatment