Samir Hanash, MD, PhD

Much excitement has beengenerated in the past fewyears around the potential of“omics technologies” to produce advancesin medicine. For example, globalprofiling using DNA microarrayshas uncovered patterns of gene expressionthat may have clinical utility. However,it has become clear that numerousobstacles must be overcome beforefindings from these studies have a substantialimpact on clinical practice.