Pharmocogenomics Has Not Fulfilled Its Promise to Developing Countries
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 21:32
in Biology & Nature
From 1997 to 2010, despite promises made by the international scientific community, pharmacogenomic research produced few studies focusing on rare, orphan and tropical diseases prevalent in developing countries. Pharmcogenomics is a field of scientific research that studies the interaction between the genomic information of individuals (or populations) and their responses to drugs.