Personalised medicine has failed to live up to the hype, researchers claim
Predictions that Human Genome Project would usher in an era of tailored therapies have largely failed to come true
Two medical scientists in the US have called for a rethink of public health research priorities, after personalised medicine based on genetic information has failed to live up to early promises. Anaesthesiologist Michael Joyner at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and epidemiologist Nigel Paneth from Michigan State University say 15 and 20-year predictions made in the late 1990s – which described how information from the Human Genome Project would completely transform the prevention and treatment of disease by now – are looking unlikely to ever come to fruition.