Wednesday, October 5, 2022

CCMB Seminar: Muneesh Tewari, Ph.D.

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Palmer Commons, Great Lakes South

Round tables w/hearty hors d'ouevres

"Toward real-time, personalized medicine using wearable sensors:  Continuous temperature monitoring and early detection of febrile adverse events in cancer patients"

Abstract

Accurately predicting the onset of disease is a major challenge in clinical medicine because the genesis of diseases is generally a complex and dynamic process. Wearable sensor technologies provide an unprecedented opportunity to collect physiological data at orders of magnitude higher high time-resolution than conventional clinical practice. This provides unprecedented opportunities for investigating the dynamics of disease processes and may usher in a new era of real-time, personalized medicine. We have proposed the potential of real-time, continuously measured physiological data as a non-invasive, “digital biomarker” approach for detecting the earliest stages in the transition to a disease state. In this talk, I will describe an example of our interdisciplinary team’s work on this topic that uses the early detection and possible prediction of febrile (i.e., fever-associated) adverse events in cancer events as an important application.

 

Clinical Interests

Prostate Cancer, General Oncology, Biomarkers in Oncology

Research Interests

• Biology of circulating, extracellular nucleic acids and translational applications

• Developing next generation approaches for early detection and monitoring of cancer

• Bioinformatics and computational biology, high-throughput sequencing

• New technologies to enable cancer detection and monitoring

Muneesh Tewari, MD, PhD

Muneesh Tewari, Ph.D.

CCMB Affiliate Faculty
Ray and Ruth Anderson-Laurence Sprague Memorial Research Professor
Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor of Biomedical Engineering