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Wolfgang Sadee, Professor, Ohio State University

Wolfgang Sadee, Dr.rer.nat., is the Felts Mercer Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Chair, Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, and Director, Center for Pharmacogenomics, with appointments in Psychiatry, Pharmacy, and Public Health, the Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute, and OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center. With a doctorate degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the FU Berlin in 1968, he had served on the pharmacy faculties of USC and UCSF until 2002. Dr. Sadee’s research focuses on pharmacogenomics of drug response and toxicity, leading the XGEN grup at OSU which is a member of the NIH Pharmacogenomics Research Network. Dr. Sadee has published over 300 research papers and monographs. He has served as founding editor of Pharmaceutical Research and The AAPS Journal. He has received several awards, including the Distinguished Scientist Award from the AAPS.

Developing Multi-Gene Biomarker Tests for Drug Therapy: Emphasis on Regulatory Variants and Epistasis

Monday, 27 October 2014 at 15:30

Add to Calendar ▼2014-10-27 15:30:002014-10-27 16:30:00Europe/LondonDeveloping Multi-Gene Biomarker Tests for Drug Therapy: Emphasis on Regulatory Variants and EpistasisSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

The genetic background of a patient strongly influences response to drugs, affecting both efficacy and adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Therefore, predictive genetic biomarker test have the potential substantially to improve treatment outcomes; however, known genetic variants account for only a portion of the overall heritability estimated from sibling studies – a gap termed the ‘missing heritability’ of complex phenotypes (mostly applied to common disorders). Research in our Center focuses on discovery of causative variants that impact pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic drug effects, with the hypothesis that a majority of causative variants are regulatory or affect RNA biology. These can be revealed by measuring allelic RNA ratios in human target tissues, either on a gene-by-gene basis or genome-wide with next generation sequencing (RNAseq). We have identified such frequent variants in up to 20 key drug target genes. Since each of these variants alone may not have sufficiently strong effect on outcomes, we propose that epistatic interactions between variants and genes (as a result of co-evolution) have the potential to narrow the gap and yield highly predictive genetic biomarker panels. Examples will be presented. Supported by NIH U01 GM092655.

Add to Calendar ▼2014-10-27 00:00:002014-10-28 00:00:00Europe/LondonCompanion DiagnosticsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

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