Raising Genomics Literacy, Knowledge, and Awareness

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-22384-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 192 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Raising Genomics Literacy, Knowledge, and Awareness is a unique resource which describes the importance of genomic literacy for the effective and streamlined implementation of genomic medicine and pharmacogenomics globally. It provides evidence and expert opinion to decipher the role of genomic and pharmacogenomic literacy to illustrate the evidence, value, and need of raising genomics awareness and education among healthcare professionals, students, and the general public. This text can be used by researchers and graduate students pursuing research in this area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rahma, Azhar T

Patrinos, George P.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Genetik und Genomik (nichtmedizinisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Genomic literacy, definition, evolution, and significance
2. Challenges in improving genomic literacy, knowledge, and awareness
3. Genomic literacy assessment: Tools and measurements
4. Improving genomic knowledge of legal professionals: A key step toward positive applications of genetic advances
5. Genomic knowledge: The healthcare providers and the public
6. Genomic literacy workforce and training initiatives
7. Genomic literacy and the social media
8. Online educational tools for raising genomics literacy
9. Portable and mobile molecular genetics laboratories for genomics education
10. Discrepancies in genomics education worldwide
11. Future role of AI in genomic literacy

Über Autor(innen)

Patrinos, George P.
George P. Patrinos is a Professor of Pharmacogenomics and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology in the University of Patras (Greece), Department of Pharmacy, and Head of Division of Pharmacology and Biosciences of the same department and holds adjunct Full Professorships at Erasmus MC, Faculty of Medicine, and Health Sciences, Rotterdam (the Netherlands), and the United Arab Emirates University, College of Medicine, Department of Genetics and Genomics, Al-Ain (UAE). Also, from 2018 until the end of 2024, he was Chair of the Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative (G2MC). He served 12.5 years as a full member and Greece's National representative in the CHMP Pharmacogenomics Working Party of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). George has more than 340 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, some of them in leading scientific journals, such as The Lancet, Nature Genetics, Nature Reviews Genetic, Nucleic Acids Research, Genes & Development. He has also coauthored and coedited more than 15 textbooks, among which the renowned textbook Molecular Diagnostics, published by Academic Press, now in its 3rd edition, while he is the editor of Translational and Applied Genomics book series, published by Elsevier. Furthermore, he serves as the Editor-In-Chief of the prestigious Pharmacogenomics Journal (TPJ), published by Nature Publishing Group, Associate Editor, and member of the editorial board of several scientific journals, and advisory and evaluation committees. Apart from that, George is the main coorganizer of the Golden Helix Conferences, an international meeting series on Pharmacogenomics and Genomic Medicine with more than 50 conferences organized in more than 25 countries worldwide.