Rotaract Club of College of Chemical Sciences

  Introduction to personalized medicine Imagine a world where your first aid cabinet is filled with medicine that is tailormade just for you! Just like a dress designed exclusively for you, fitting all your body measurements; your medicine is also designed for you, fitting all the information in your DNA.  This isn’t science fiction!  Its modern science revolutionized through a culmination of emerging fields like medicine, genetics, medicinal chemistry, medical technology, molecular biology, pharmacogenomics and the list goes on.  Experts in the field along with researchers have now discovered a close link between an individual’s genes and the medication prescribed. The whole idea behind this is to provide a more accurate and precise treatment for a disease, with the least amount of side effects or no side effects at all.  Interesting, isn’t it?  That no drug you take has a side effect? When I say no side effect, doesn’t mean a life-threatening allergy, I m...