UM: Health

An ABC News report on the top 10 medical advances of the decade quotes Margit Burmeister, a UM professor of psychiatry and human genetics, who talks about how genetic research has changed the way lung cancer is treated: “Drugs like Iressa [a lung cancer drug] should only be given to people with certain mutations. This is really only the start, and my prediction is that in the next 10 years, this will become a lot more important.” [Source]