Genomics and Future of Medicine is focus of Institute of Medicine meeting

Sept. 4, 2009 -- The Institute of Medicine (IOM) will host a regional meeting on Genomics and the Future of Medicine from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 10 in the Eric P. Newman Education Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The Newman Center is located at 320 S. Taylor Ave.

Timothy Ley, M.D., the Alan A. & Edith Wolff Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, will give a talk titled "The Cancer Genome." Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., director of the medical school's Center for Genome Sciences, also will address "The Microbiome — in Health and Diseases."

A panel discussion and reception will conclude the conference. For more information or to register, go to http://www.iom.edu/CMS/23794.aspx.

The IOM is a non-profit organization chartered in 1970 as a part of the United States National Academy of Sciences. The Institute relies on a volunteer workforce of scientists and other experts under a formal peer-review system to provide independent guidance and analysis. Its mission is to serve as adviser to the nation to improve health.