University of Rochester

Personalized Medicine +Live

Enjoy all the features of our Personalized Medicine course plus live sessions on select weekdays. These structured online events will include:

Guest speakers: Subject-matter experts and professors

Course mentors: Students and alumni who know the field

Interactive events: Engage with classmates from around the world

*Live sessions are subject to change.

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Sample +Live Schedule from Prior Year

Select a session from multiple time slots to learn more about what you can expect from the course.

During this session, you’ll learn about Rochester's admissions process as well as the careers available in personalized medicine. Featured guests include Patrick O'Neill from the University of Rochester's admissions team, who will answer questions and provide you with his unique insights.

Guest speaker(s): Patrick O'Neill joined the University of Rochester Admissions Office in 2007, where he currently leads the team responsible for the University’s recruitment, outreach, and application review efforts for all of Upstate New York. He is a former member of the Executive Board of the New York State Association for College Admissions Counseling and a Posse Foundation mentor. He received his B.A. from SUNY Geneseo, and he earned an M.S. and an Ed.D. in higher education administration from the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester.

Guest speaker(s): Dr. Danielle Presgraves, PhD, Assistant Professor in Instruction in the Biology Department, University of Rochester

Join the Personalized Medicine course designer, Dr. Danielle Presgraves, as she discusses the differences between race, ethnicity, culture, and ancestry. Gain a foundational understanding of how these differences are important for personalized medicine.

Hear about exciting news stories from the leading edge of gene therapy, as research and technology continue to expand our ability to use personalized medicine to cure and/or treat diseases in completely novel ways.

How can you decide what is right and wrong? What are the pros and cons of gene editing? Are "designer babies" ethical? In this session, you'll talk with peers about the ethical implications of genetic engineering.

Explore how more inclusive ancestry databases will result in better diagnosis and treatments. Look at solutions, and understand why having overwhelmingly European ancestry in research databases is problamatic.

You'll learn what new areas of concentration are up and coming, what this means for the industry, and why these new ideas are changing the future of personalized medicine.