#230 Cancer Pharmacogenetics with Dr. Jamie Fettig

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My guest today is Dr. Jamie Fettig, the Founder and CEO of TruGene Diagnostics. We are chatting about a breakthrough in eliminating variants of unknown significance - especially  in relation to companion diagnostic tests and pharmacogenetics in oncology. 

Dr. Jamie Fettig is the Founder and CEO of TruGene Diagnostics, which is eliminating variants of unknown significance - especially  in relation to companion diagnostic tests and pharmacogenetics in oncology. He graduated from Palmer University. Dr. Fettig previously worked in private practice and then transitioned into manufacturing and selling medical equipment. He also worked as a coach and trainer to fellow doctors. 

On This Episode We Discuss:

Defining variants of unknown significance (VUS), pharmacogenetics and companion diagnostics

What TruGene Diagnostics does

The GiggaAssay

How knowing if a breast cancer is HER2+ can help inform medications that people should be prescribed

VUS in HER2 Tyrosine Kinase Region

What people should do if they get HER2+ cancer or their doctor wants to do a biopsy thinking it might be HER2+

How cancer survival rates are impacted by utilizing precision medicine approaches with drugs

How TruGene Diagnostics’ test differs from other PGx tests or Precision Meds

How pharmacogenomics can increase the efficacy of clinical trials

Check out Dr. Fettig’s papers:

Heligenics: fulfilling the promise of the functional genome to enable precision medicine (March, 2023)

Data Supporting a saturation mutagenesis assay for Tat-driven transcription with the GigaAssay (September 2022)

GigaAssay – a high-throughput assay system for molecular functions and cell processes (July 2021)

Check out DNA Today Episode 134 that Kira mentioned during this episode; it’s with guest Dr. Kat Arney about cancer evolution. You can also stream other episodes about pharmacogenomics including