SymBIOsis - Getting Personal: Perspectives on the Changing Landscape of Personalized Medicine November 8, 2011

The Rice Alliance - Austin Chapter and UT's Austin Technology Bioscience Incubator invite you to Austin's life sciences networking and educational event: symBIOsis. If you're a life sciences entrepreneur, entrepreneur-to-be, faculty, graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or part of the life sciences industry in Austin, then this is for you!

The mission of symBIOsis is to provide an Austin-area forum for the life sciences community to network, support each other, and learn about the challenges of starting and growing life sciences technology companies.

Enjoy food, drink, & conversation with Austin's life sciences network. Then stay for a expert panel discussion on personalized medicine. The practice of medicine is beginning to realize the potential and benefits of individualized patient care or personalized medicine based on each patient's unique response to disease. Personalized medicine has the potential to disrupt the entire healthcare industry. The panel discussion will address the development of new drug classes, how companion diagnostics in conjunction with approved treatment options can benefit patient care, how healthcare delivery mechanisms have benefited and improved individual patient care and lastly, the benefits payors experience from the adoption of personalized care.