Enabling Personalised Medicine From FFPE Tissue
Austin Tanney, Scientific Liaison Manager, Almac
Date Posted: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Launch presentation
Abstract
Molecular profiling and molecular diagnostics are the key to development of the prognostic and predictive tests which will usher in the era of personalised medicine. The development of such tests is often hampered by the lack of suitable tissue samples. Profiling of DNA and RNA from routinely stored formallin fixed and paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue samples has proved to be hugely challenging. This talk provides an overview of some of the issues surrounding working with FFPE samples and how these can now be addressed. Examples will be given showing the application of RNA profiling in biomarker discovery from FFPE tissue.
Launch presentation