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Dr. Jan Nolta Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Jan Nolta, Director of the UC Davis Gene Therapy Center, was recently awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Innovation as part of the 2022 Chancellor's Innovation Awards.

“Innovation is at the heart of our mission at UC Davis,” said Chancellor Gary S. May. “We are driven to take action by creating new inventions beyond the boundaries of our campus. These award winners are groundbreakers who improve society as their innovations move out of the lab and into the world.”

Gene Therapy Center Developing Cutting-Edge Treatments

Precision medicine, an approach that uses information about an individual’s unique variations to treat or prevent disease, is changing the future of medicine.

Rather than tackling symptoms, precision medicine — sometimes called personalized or individualized medicine — looks at the root cause of illnesses. Some of the information used to determine treatment can include genetic variations and mutations, lifestyle, the environment, or even a person’s unique microbiome.

Personalized medicine is not new, but research momentum for individualized cures is growing.