The Harper Government announced an important investment that will help Canadians receive more effective treatments and make the healthcare system more sustainable through personalized medicine. Healthcare will evolve from a reactive “one-size-fits-all” system towards a system of predictive, preventive, and precision care. Areas in which personalized approaches are particularly promising include oncology, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, psychiatric disorders, diabetes and obesity, arthritis, pain, and Alzheimer’s disease. In all of these fields, and others, a personalized molecular medicine approach is expected to lead to better health outcomes, improved treatments, and reduction in toxicity due to variable or adverse drug responses. In addition to saving on the costs of expensive drug treatments, this personalized treatment would prevent a great deal of suffering, while identifying and initiating earlier treatments that would be more effective.animal data indicates AFN-1252 has mg/ kg efficacy that is significantly improved compared to linezolid; and both single and multiple dose Phase 1 data indicate an excellent safety and tolerability profile. We are confident that the Phase 2 trial will confirm AFN-1252 as a potent and well tolerated anti-Staph antibiotic” commented Dr. Hafkin, Chief Medical Officer of Affinium Pharmaceuticals.
