Genomic Medicine is an emerging way of understanding personalized healthcare. Based on genomic information, that is, the set of instructions contained in our DNA, we can improve our ability to diagnose genetically based diseases, establish treatments and follow-up, predict the risk of developing a disease or reaction to certain drugs and improve our understanding of health and disease.
Genomic Medicine is a big step for the diagnosis and treatment of common and rare diseases, but also for the prevention of health. At the Center for Genomic Medicine we want to go one step further. We believe that between daily care practice and the frontier of research there is a significant amount of validated and untapped knowledge, which can and should be applied, under the highest ethical and quality standards, to maintain and improve health and the well-being of all individuals.
Our team is made up of motivated and experienced geneticists with different profiles: clinical geneticists, dysmorphologists, genetic counselors, experts in genomic diagnosis, bioinformaticians, technical and administrative staff. In addition, from a multidisciplinary umbrella, we promote and integrate training and teaching, as well as research and innovation aimed at protecting and improving health. Our daily activity is closely linked to the generation and translation of knowledge from the Research and Innovation Institute (I3PT) of Parc Taulí.
On the other hand, we have transversal support from the areas of Laboratory Service, such as the ISO9001 internal and external quality system and 15189 accreditation, the pre-analytical process, information systems, and continuing education activities. Likewise, we share and integrate clinical and molecular services in the field of familial and somatic cancer with services of Pathological Anatomy and Oncology, and in the field of Rare Diseases with the Rare Diseases Unit.