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Author: Xiaodong Feng ,
Hong-Guang Xie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint: CRC Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.566kg
ISBN: 9781466582675
ISBN 10: 1466582677
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 27 January 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The book exemplifies clinical cases of genetic variants in several diseases, defining genetic determinants for drug response and thoroughly describes the applications and therapy in clinical practice. Finally, the authors connect pharmacogenomics with the generation of cost-effectiveness treatments. Applying Pharmacogenomics in Therapeutics is intended for graduate, medical school courses. or healthcare professionals with a deep focus on genomics, pharmacy, pharmacology, and clinical care practice. Healthcare providers and research scientists would benefit from this text as a reference tool of the recent advances in this field. This text is well written and provides useful examples, tables and clinical cases to better understand and practice the concepts being described. Each chapter begins with a short list of key concepts, an introduction to the topic of the chapter, and concludes with a summary and study questions to practice. The book facilitates an extensive number of references per chapter to educate in depth and to provide tools to increase research and knowledge to the readers. Overall, this text is a comprehensive presentation of the recent approaches in personalized therapy based on genome sequencing and pharmacology combination. - Judit Jimenez-Sainz, The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, vol. 90, March 2017
Author Information
Xiaodong Feng, PhD, PharmD, began his biomedical research career 19 years ago in the Wound Healing Center, Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA. He then served for four years as assistant professor in the Department of Dermatology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. Currently, Dr. Feng is professor of Pharmacology and Oncology, and Associate Dean at California Northstate University College of Medicine, Elk Grove, USA; clinical pharmacist at Sutter Davis Hospital, California, USA; and oncology pharmacy specialist at Dignity Health Medical Foundation, Rancho Cordova, California, USA. Hong-Guang Xie, MD, PhD, earned his degrees from Central South University Xiangya School of Medicine, Changsha, China, was promoted to lecturer, and then to associate professor of pharmacology. Subsequently, he served as co-founder and associate director of the Pharmacogenetics Research Institute, Changsha, China; postdoctoral research fellow and faculty research instructor at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; staff research fellow at the University of California Washington Center, DC, USA; and Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) fellow for the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA). Dr. Xie is currently full professor of pharmacology and chief of the General Clinical Research Center, Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, China.
